Even though I voted for Mussolini, I’m not opposed to him becoming Consul.
Would his ego permit him to accept a lower position, though?
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Would his ego permit him to accept a lower position, though?
Chapter 104: The Neo-Ottoman Caliphate
Chapter 104: The Neo-Ottoman Caliphate:
Because of the threat of the Turkish Soviet Socialist Republic the new Neo-Ottoman Empire tried to establish a strong and united state, hat focused of the Sunni Mohammedan ideology and the Turkish people. To do so, the National Monarchist Turks that supported the new state did what the Germans did before, they brought the former Caliph Abdulmejid II (Ottoman Turkish: عبد المجید الثانی, Abd al-Madjeed al-Thâni – Turkish: Halife İkinci Abdülmecit Efendi, born 29 May 1868) the 37th Head of the Ottoman Imperial House from 1922 to 1924 returned to his nation to once again lead the state. In a important ceremony in Istanbul Abdulmejid II was proclaimed the Caliph of Islam again and promoted the ideas of Pan-Turkism and Pan-Islamism. These ideals were clearly aiming against the Allied Powers in Africa and Asia, but also against the Soviet Union. With the help of Imperial German propaganda, the Neo-Ottoman Empire reclaimed the title of a Caliphate and claimed what they called Turkestan (basically the Caucasus and Soviet Central Asia).
The plan of the Neo-Ottoman Empire was to unite with the ethnically mainly Turkic (Kazakh, Kirghiz, Turkmen, Uigur, Uzbek) and Mohammedan areas of the Soviet Union to establishme a unified Eurasian Turkish Empire. Part of this plan was also to force the Russians and Othrodox people out of this historically Turkish and Mohammedan areas. It was clear that such a huge empire needed modern roads and railways to connect all it's territories in Asia. The idea itself was later supported by Uzbek emigrant Veli Kayyun Han, who from April 1942 on would live in Istanbul to organize the Turkestan National Union Jihad Committee. In the end the plan the Armenian SSR, the Georgia SSR, the Azerbaijan SSR, the Kazak SSR, the Uzbek SSR, the Turkmen SSR, the Tajik SSR and the Kyrgyz SSR as well as Persia in some version of the Neo-Ottoman Empire plans of a common religious an ethnic state and powerful empire with a huge population and important ressources like oil.
One of the first orders of the Caliph Abdulmejid II was to take measures to retake the lands lost in the First Great War. To do so the Imperial Turkish Camel Regiments was recreated from the Camel Corps that the Turkish Army had used before during the First Great War. Just like the Arab rebels back then under Lawrence this new Turkish Units would then be able to go off the road into the desert and flank or surround their Allied enemies when they would once again attack to retake Palestine, Iraq and maybe even Oman, Egypt and Sudan from the Allied forces.
Because of the threat of the Turkish Soviet Socialist Republic the new Neo-Ottoman Empire tried to establish a strong and united state, hat focused of the Sunni Mohammedan ideology and the Turkish people. To do so, the National Monarchist Turks that supported the new state did what the Germans did before, they brought the former Caliph Abdulmejid II (Ottoman Turkish: عبد المجید الثانی, Abd al-Madjeed al-Thâni – Turkish: Halife İkinci Abdülmecit Efendi, born 29 May 1868) the 37th Head of the Ottoman Imperial House from 1922 to 1924 returned to his nation to once again lead the state. In a important ceremony in Istanbul Abdulmejid II was proclaimed the Caliph of Islam again and promoted the ideas of Pan-Turkism and Pan-Islamism. These ideals were clearly aiming against the Allied Powers in Africa and Asia, but also against the Soviet Union. With the help of Imperial German propaganda, the Neo-Ottoman Empire reclaimed the title of a Caliphate and claimed what they called Turkestan (basically the Caucasus and Soviet Central Asia).
The plan of the Neo-Ottoman Empire was to unite with the ethnically mainly Turkic (Kazakh, Kirghiz, Turkmen, Uigur, Uzbek) and Mohammedan areas of the Soviet Union to establishme a unified Eurasian Turkish Empire. Part of this plan was also to force the Russians and Othrodox people out of this historically Turkish and Mohammedan areas. It was clear that such a huge empire needed modern roads and railways to connect all it's territories in Asia. The idea itself was later supported by Uzbek emigrant Veli Kayyun Han, who from April 1942 on would live in Istanbul to organize the Turkestan National Union Jihad Committee. In the end the plan the Armenian SSR, the Georgia SSR, the Azerbaijan SSR, the Kazak SSR, the Uzbek SSR, the Turkmen SSR, the Tajik SSR and the Kyrgyz SSR as well as Persia in some version of the Neo-Ottoman Empire plans of a common religious an ethnic state and powerful empire with a huge population and important ressources like oil.
One of the first orders of the Caliph Abdulmejid II was to take measures to retake the lands lost in the First Great War. To do so the Imperial Turkish Camel Regiments was recreated from the Camel Corps that the Turkish Army had used before during the First Great War. Just like the Arab rebels back then under Lawrence this new Turkish Units would then be able to go off the road into the desert and flank or surround their Allied enemies when they would once again attack to retake Palestine, Iraq and maybe even Oman, Egypt and Sudan from the Allied forces.
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Chapter 105: The African Campaign: - Part 3: Operation Heimweh (Homesick)
Chapter 105: The African Campaign: - Part 3: Operation Heimweh (Homesick):
At first most German Militaries believed it to be a joke (and quiet a bad one) when the Reichskolonialbund (RKB) (English: Reich Colonial League) led by Franz Ritter von Epp, Theodor Seitz (the former colonial governor of Kamerun and president of the Reichskolonialbund society), Heinrich Albert Schnee (the former colonial governor of East Africa) together with Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, nicknamed affectionately as the Lion of Africa (German: Löwe von Afrika) the commander of the German forces in the First Great War's German East African campaign and one of his junior officers, Theodor von Hippel requested a meeting with the German Emperor Wilhelm III. After hours of talking and more meetings the following days, Emperor Wilhelm was sure their plan could work out and he ordered the needed preparations to be made. A few weeks later German transport and merchant ships all not under the German Flag but that of Allied or neutral countries left the Atlantic Coast, the Mediterranean or even Iranian harbors (where they had arrived over Turkey).
At first most German Militaries believed it to be a joke (and quiet a bad one) when the Reichskolonialbund (RKB) (English: Reich Colonial League) led by Franz Ritter von Epp, Theodor Seitz (the former colonial governor of Kamerun and president of the Reichskolonialbund society), Heinrich Albert Schnee (the former colonial governor of East Africa) together with Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, nicknamed affectionately as the Lion of Africa (German: Löwe von Afrika) the commander of the German forces in the First Great War's German East African campaign and one of his junior officers, Theodor von Hippel requested a meeting with the German Emperor Wilhelm III. After hours of talking and more meetings the following days, Emperor Wilhelm was sure their plan could work out and he ordered the needed preparations to be made. A few weeks later German transport and merchant ships all not under the German Flag but that of Allied or neutral countries left the Atlantic Coast, the Mediterranean or even Iranian harbors (where they had arrived over Turkey).
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Kamerun Kumpels (Cameron Pals)
Kamerun Kumpels (Cameron Pals):
Coming from Wilhelmshafen over the North Sea and the Atlantic, bypassing England in the North over Norway, the so called Kamerun Kumpels were coming incognito in four civil looking transport ships full of military infantry equipment (120 machine guns alone as well as artillery and anti tank guns), 10 light tanks, and 36 aircraft to land their forces of 8,453 soldiers (German Imperial Army and High Sea Fleet together) to land in Riu Muni (Spainish Territory) to attack French held Cameroon, the Belgish Congo and British Nigeria from there.
Coming from Wilhelmshafen over the North Sea and the Atlantic, bypassing England in the North over Norway, the so called Kamerun Kumpels were coming incognito in four civil looking transport ships full of military infantry equipment (120 machine guns alone as well as artillery and anti tank guns), 10 light tanks, and 36 aircraft to land their forces of 8,453 soldiers (German Imperial Army and High Sea Fleet together) to land in Riu Muni (Spainish Territory) to attack French held Cameroon, the Belgish Congo and British Nigeria from there.
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Neu Teutschland Cowboys (New German-Southwest Cowboys)
Neu Teutschland Cowboys (New German-Southwest Cowboys):
Starting in Cadiz, Spain the Neu Teutschland Cowboys were made up by former veterans of the First Great War and new Recruits that had trained horse and camel riding to prepare for a mobile guerrilla war against the Allies in former Deutsch Südwest Africa (or Teutschland as some called it). Many of them were trained in Poland and Turkey and some volunteers even came from these states and Austria-Hungary.
While their six ships were intercepted and one sunk, while two got captured by the British Navy. The remaining forces of 4,226 soldiers with their military infantry equipment (120 machine guns alone as well as artillery and anti tank guns), 8 light tanks, and 27 aircraft managed to land in former German Soutwest Africa and quickly unloaded their mobile forces before the Allies knew what was going on or could react. Starting a mobile campaign in the South African Mandate, the Neu Teutschland Cowboys would become a threat for the Union of South Africa during the war, not only because they tied down South African Commonwealth forces, but also because they contacted members of the South African Republic, Boer Nationalists who wished to cede from Union of South Africa and hold sympathies for the Axis Central Powers.
Winston Churchill himself would call the Southwestler (German: Südwestler or Teutschland) Cowboys (as the press called the mobile German raiders and guerrilla fighters) one of his biggest concerns for a allied victory in Africa. Every time it looked like they would be cough, the Neu Teutschland Cowboys would manage to escape, often surrounding the native colonial troops that hunted them and capture their supplies, equipment and rations to fight on. A few months after their landing, the Neu Teutschland Cowboys had not only established good contacts with some Boer Nationalists in the South African Republic and it's military that was fighting them inside the League of Nations Mandate of German Southwest Africa, but also allied themselve with various tribes and clans that had enough of the Allied rule and were happy to reestablish their old alliances with the German Empire. These natives would support them with supplies, new (and mostly primitive and only weak armed tribal warriors for the Hilfstruppen and Askari) and native human porters and workers for their cause.
Starting in Cadiz, Spain the Neu Teutschland Cowboys were made up by former veterans of the First Great War and new Recruits that had trained horse and camel riding to prepare for a mobile guerrilla war against the Allies in former Deutsch Südwest Africa (or Teutschland as some called it). Many of them were trained in Poland and Turkey and some volunteers even came from these states and Austria-Hungary.
While their six ships were intercepted and one sunk, while two got captured by the British Navy. The remaining forces of 4,226 soldiers with their military infantry equipment (120 machine guns alone as well as artillery and anti tank guns), 8 light tanks, and 27 aircraft managed to land in former German Soutwest Africa and quickly unloaded their mobile forces before the Allies knew what was going on or could react. Starting a mobile campaign in the South African Mandate, the Neu Teutschland Cowboys would become a threat for the Union of South Africa during the war, not only because they tied down South African Commonwealth forces, but also because they contacted members of the South African Republic, Boer Nationalists who wished to cede from Union of South Africa and hold sympathies for the Axis Central Powers.
Winston Churchill himself would call the Southwestler (German: Südwestler or Teutschland) Cowboys (as the press called the mobile German raiders and guerrilla fighters) one of his biggest concerns for a allied victory in Africa. Every time it looked like they would be cough, the Neu Teutschland Cowboys would manage to escape, often surrounding the native colonial troops that hunted them and capture their supplies, equipment and rations to fight on. A few months after their landing, the Neu Teutschland Cowboys had not only established good contacts with some Boer Nationalists in the South African Republic and it's military that was fighting them inside the League of Nations Mandate of German Southwest Africa, but also allied themselve with various tribes and clans that had enough of the Allied rule and were happy to reestablish their old alliances with the German Empire. These natives would support them with supplies, new (and mostly primitive and only weak armed tribal warriors for the Hilfstruppen and Askari) and native human porters and workers for their cause.
Lettow-Vorbeck's Löwen (Lettow-Vorbeck's Lions)
Lettow-Vorbeck's Löwen (Lettow-Vorbeck's Lions):
Coming from ports in Iran Lettow-Vorbeck's Löwen (Lettow-Vorbeck's Lions) made good use of the fact that most Allied troops were focussed in East Africa against the Italian Empire. Because of this fact and the lucky reality that the Royal Navy secured the Golf of Aden and not the whole Indian Ocean, they managed to land their forces in East Africa and try to retake the land and start a campaign like Lettow-Vorbakc did before in 1914-1918. Overall they managed to land 12,472 soldiers and support personal, together with military infantry equipment (160 machine guns alone as well as artillery and anti tank guns), 20 light tanks and 54 aircraft in Sansibar (that was fortified) and along the African coast before the island. With their forces trying to establish a beach-head and following the railways deeper inland from the harbor at the African coast, Lettow-Vorbeck's Lions quickly allied themselves with natives and started to train African Askari as supporting forces once again (under Command of Theodor von Hippel) to even increase their numbers against the Allied forces in the region as fast as possible. Command of Theodor von Hippel later tried to start civil unrest and revolts against the Allies in East Africa too.
Coming from ports in Iran Lettow-Vorbeck's Löwen (Lettow-Vorbeck's Lions) made good use of the fact that most Allied troops were focussed in East Africa against the Italian Empire. Because of this fact and the lucky reality that the Royal Navy secured the Golf of Aden and not the whole Indian Ocean, they managed to land their forces in East Africa and try to retake the land and start a campaign like Lettow-Vorbakc did before in 1914-1918. Overall they managed to land 12,472 soldiers and support personal, together with military infantry equipment (160 machine guns alone as well as artillery and anti tank guns), 20 light tanks and 54 aircraft in Sansibar (that was fortified) and along the African coast before the island. With their forces trying to establish a beach-head and following the railways deeper inland from the harbor at the African coast, Lettow-Vorbeck's Lions quickly allied themselves with natives and started to train African Askari as supporting forces once again (under Command of Theodor von Hippel) to even increase their numbers against the Allied forces in the region as fast as possible. Command of Theodor von Hippel later tried to start civil unrest and revolts against the Allies in East Africa too.
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Südseeler (South-sea Men)
Südseeler (South-sea Men):
The so called Südseeler (South-sea Men) landed with their cargo ships on the coast of Papua New-Guinea in a attempt to start up a native rebellion against the Australian government here. Far from home and out of any possible supplies it hurt the Südseeler very much when most of their military infantry equipment (40 machine guns, as well as artillery and anti tank guns), 20 light tanks and 18 aircraft were destroyed by the Royal Australian Navy or Royal Australian Air Force, or just stopped working because of the jungle climate, air moisture and a lack of spare parts for repairs. Forced to retreat deep into the jungle, the Südseeler would start ally and recruit native tribes (sometimes by force) to fight a unsuccessful guerrilla war and later side with invading Imperial Japanese and Co-Prosperity Sphere Forces. Alongside some volunteers that would fight in Burma and India against the British, the Südseeler in Papua would be the only German and Axis Central Power forces directly fighting side by side with the Co-Prosperity Sphere Forces during the Second Great War.
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The so called Südseeler (South-sea Men) landed with their cargo ships on the coast of Papua New-Guinea in a attempt to start up a native rebellion against the Australian government here. Far from home and out of any possible supplies it hurt the Südseeler very much when most of their military infantry equipment (40 machine guns, as well as artillery and anti tank guns), 20 light tanks and 18 aircraft were destroyed by the Royal Australian Navy or Royal Australian Air Force, or just stopped working because of the jungle climate, air moisture and a lack of spare parts for repairs. Forced to retreat deep into the jungle, the Südseeler would start ally and recruit native tribes (sometimes by force) to fight a unsuccessful guerrilla war and later side with invading Imperial Japanese and Co-Prosperity Sphere Forces. Alongside some volunteers that would fight in Burma and India against the British, the Südseeler in Papua would be the only German and Axis Central Power forces directly fighting side by side with the Co-Prosperity Sphere Forces during the Second Great War.
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1)What are these two Chinese states south of Kuomintang China not part of the Sphere?
2)What's the opinion of the Hui populace about the CUF? And about the Sphere and the Japanese?
3)It's Southern Expansion really more senseful than Northern Expansion? Hokushin-ron focuses on one common enemy from Europe to the Sphere that is unlikely to be helped by the allies. Nanshin-ron, on the other hand, attack Allies and Americans, that are a force that is really more difficult to beat than USSR, and it's going to make Barbarossa more likely to fail, leaving a potential enemy in the north.
2)What's the opinion of the Hui populace about the CUF? And about the Sphere and the Japanese?
3)It's Southern Expansion really more senseful than Northern Expansion? Hokushin-ron focuses on one common enemy from Europe to the Sphere that is unlikely to be helped by the allies. Nanshin-ron, on the other hand, attack Allies and Americans, that are a force that is really more difficult to beat than USSR, and it's going to make Barbarossa more likely to fail, leaving a potential enemy in the north.
Rebells against the United Front and Chiang:
"But Chiang's pact with the communists was not favored by everyone in the United Front and soon the Xikang (also Sikang or Hsikang) Army at the western border towards Tibet, the Sichuan (formerly romanized Szechuan) Clique in the south at the border to Yikoku under Tian Songyao and the Hunan Clique in the east next to Wang Jingwei's held region of china all rebelled against the United Front and became fully independent warlords again (but still continued to fight against the Co-Prosperity Sphere)."
That depents, some fight for Chiang but hate Mao, the Communists and their ideas when they are in charge. The Kuomintang party and Chiang and the Kuomintang Party an Wang both considered all Chinese minority peoples, including the Hui, to be descendants of the Yellow Emperor, the mythical founder of the Chinese nation, and thus members of the Chinese Nation; Zhonghua Minzu. They introduced this into the Kuomintang's ideology, which was propagated by the educational system of the Republic of China. However under the Sphere Kuomindang and Wang's government they are encouraged to celebrate their differences even more to officially "be themselves" as their own group in "one nation" (but secetly to divide the minorities from the Han Chinese). Same goes for Yankoku, Tikoku, Yikoku, Manchukuo and Chosen. In Tibet however they are encouraged to practise the state religion and customs and in Mengjiang they are hunted and killed (just like any non-mongol minortiy/religion under the new Khan who believes Mongols like Turks that convered to other religions are traitors to their ancestors).
That's why the Hokushin-ron and Nanshin-ro are so hotly debatet between Army and Navy, wile many ressources in Siberia are partly unknown the SPhere membrs of Manchukuo and Mengjiang wishe to expand into the region (Mongolia, Transamur) so does Japan itself (Karafuto, securing the home islnds from the range of Soviet bombers and such), but while in Japans and most of the worlds opinion the Red Army still look weak, same goes for the southern Allis (Dutsch, Britisch...) where immense ressources wait (some needed to continue and finish the war in China thanks to the US Embargo) and where Allied Forces are spread very thinly while the own Sphere foces can be massed for attacking the region. The Problem here; Japan believes that the USA guarantees this holding and a attack there will ultimatlybring them into the war. Beause of that a preemptive strike is in planning and a occupation of the Phillippines.
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Chapter 106: The New Caesar
Chapter 106: The New Caesar:
While Il Duce Benito Mussolini failed to fulfill the Italien Irredenta to claim all regions that rightfully belonged to the Italian Empire, he managed to claim Albania, Corsica, Tunis and even occupy Greece. His social reforms and industrialization reshaped the state and the society of Italy like few did before, but he failed his own ambitions. Instead of reviving the Roman Empire and Republic, he and the Axis Central Powers managed to rule Europe as different state and empires in a close alliance. It was beginning, but Mussolini himself felt like he was still far away from the ambitious dream he and some others had. The workers, industries, and organizations that were systematized into confederations or syndicates (Italian: Centurio Comites, Group of a hundred councils) served as the ideological and social backbone of the new state, ha was reorganized from the Roman (Italian) citizens all the way up to the new Roman Senate. But the dispute between the Fascist Royalists and National Monarchists, between Il Duce Benito Mussolini and King Victor Emmanuel III grew stronger every day, while the Italian (Roman) Empire got weaker, even compared to it's own allies or former enemy and new ally the French Empire. As Mussolini' Black Shirts attacked the King's Sympathizers in Milano and loyal Followers of the King attacked Fascists in Roma it looked like the mighty Italian Empire, despite being in the Second Great War as a world war, could soon be engulfed in the internal flames of a Civil War.
It was the question if the King (Capo dello stato) or Il Duce (Capo del governo) would rule the new state. The Italian military and industry and even the syndicalist cooperate confederations (Centurio Comites) were deeply split over the issue, with roughly one third supported Benito Mussolini and two third Victor Emmanuel III. At the brink of a civil war it was Benito Mussolini who stepped into the Kings Palace and discussed how civil war could be averted. While Il Duce had more sympathizers in the military and the Gran Consigilo (Great Fascist Council) he knew the King had more overall supporters in the Fasci and Corporatione chamber (National Cooperation Chamber, a National Syndicalist institution) as well as the new Roman Senate voted into office by the Centurio Comites. In the end it was Il Duce who realized that he could not fight for Italy if he fought the King and that a new Civil War over the topic would destroy the Empire Italy had finally re-managed to build since his fascists came to power between 1922 and 1924. Il Duce and the King discussed the new plans for twenty days in private, only accompanied by their closest allies and advisers. The next day Il Duce Benito Mussolini steppe before the new Roman Senate and declared that all his special powers and abilities considering the state, government and military would from now on fall once again into the hands of Victor Emmanuel III, the new Cesar (Emperor) of the new Roman Empire. With this move Italy was now once again in the same League as his Axis Central Power allies, the German, Austrian-Hungarian and French Empire. The next speaker of the Senate was Victor Emmanuel III, the new Cesar himself, who compared Benito Mussolini to the greatest Romans and Italians in history, claiming that without him and his reformation of society the new Roman Empire would have never been able to rise again. For his work the former Duce Benito Mussolini was rewarded with the titles Consul and Senator for life time by Cesar Victor Emmanuel III and declared the head of Senate and his trusted personal adviser. From now on Consul and Senator Benito Mussolini would wear the civil clothes of a new Roman Consul and Senator instead of military uniforms. The new job also meant less stress for himself, so Benito got quiet healthier. He would also serve as a special ambassador for the Roman Empire in the National Kingdom of Spain and promote the Latin Block Union with close ties in culture, language, military to wishfully one day unite both countries. But for the moment his greatest achievement was to prevent a possible Italio-Roman Civil War and bring back the Senate, Cesar and the Roman Imperial Republic as a new powerful state.
(Consul and Senator Benito Mussolin)
While Il Duce Benito Mussolini failed to fulfill the Italien Irredenta to claim all regions that rightfully belonged to the Italian Empire, he managed to claim Albania, Corsica, Tunis and even occupy Greece. His social reforms and industrialization reshaped the state and the society of Italy like few did before, but he failed his own ambitions. Instead of reviving the Roman Empire and Republic, he and the Axis Central Powers managed to rule Europe as different state and empires in a close alliance. It was beginning, but Mussolini himself felt like he was still far away from the ambitious dream he and some others had. The workers, industries, and organizations that were systematized into confederations or syndicates (Italian: Centurio Comites, Group of a hundred councils) served as the ideological and social backbone of the new state, ha was reorganized from the Roman (Italian) citizens all the way up to the new Roman Senate. But the dispute between the Fascist Royalists and National Monarchists, between Il Duce Benito Mussolini and King Victor Emmanuel III grew stronger every day, while the Italian (Roman) Empire got weaker, even compared to it's own allies or former enemy and new ally the French Empire. As Mussolini' Black Shirts attacked the King's Sympathizers in Milano and loyal Followers of the King attacked Fascists in Roma it looked like the mighty Italian Empire, despite being in the Second Great War as a world war, could soon be engulfed in the internal flames of a Civil War.
It was the question if the King (Capo dello stato) or Il Duce (Capo del governo) would rule the new state. The Italian military and industry and even the syndicalist cooperate confederations (Centurio Comites) were deeply split over the issue, with roughly one third supported Benito Mussolini and two third Victor Emmanuel III. At the brink of a civil war it was Benito Mussolini who stepped into the Kings Palace and discussed how civil war could be averted. While Il Duce had more sympathizers in the military and the Gran Consigilo (Great Fascist Council) he knew the King had more overall supporters in the Fasci and Corporatione chamber (National Cooperation Chamber, a National Syndicalist institution) as well as the new Roman Senate voted into office by the Centurio Comites. In the end it was Il Duce who realized that he could not fight for Italy if he fought the King and that a new Civil War over the topic would destroy the Empire Italy had finally re-managed to build since his fascists came to power between 1922 and 1924. Il Duce and the King discussed the new plans for twenty days in private, only accompanied by their closest allies and advisers. The next day Il Duce Benito Mussolini steppe before the new Roman Senate and declared that all his special powers and abilities considering the state, government and military would from now on fall once again into the hands of Victor Emmanuel III, the new Cesar (Emperor) of the new Roman Empire. With this move Italy was now once again in the same League as his Axis Central Power allies, the German, Austrian-Hungarian and French Empire. The next speaker of the Senate was Victor Emmanuel III, the new Cesar himself, who compared Benito Mussolini to the greatest Romans and Italians in history, claiming that without him and his reformation of society the new Roman Empire would have never been able to rise again. For his work the former Duce Benito Mussolini was rewarded with the titles Consul and Senator for life time by Cesar Victor Emmanuel III and declared the head of Senate and his trusted personal adviser. From now on Consul and Senator Benito Mussolini would wear the civil clothes of a new Roman Consul and Senator instead of military uniforms. The new job also meant less stress for himself, so Benito got quiet healthier. He would also serve as a special ambassador for the Roman Empire in the National Kingdom of Spain and promote the Latin Block Union with close ties in culture, language, military to wishfully one day unite both countries. But for the moment his greatest achievement was to prevent a possible Italio-Roman Civil War and bring back the Senate, Cesar and the Roman Imperial Republic as a new powerful state.
(Consul and Senator Benito Mussolin)
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Chapter 107: Japanese Model Cities for the Co-Prosperity Sphere
Chapter 107: Japanese Model Cities for the Co-Prosperity Sphere:
Beginning in Chosen and Manchukuo, the Japanese established small neighborhoods and later towns and cities for these countrymen who wished to migrate and colonize the new areas and flee the overpopulated Home Islands. Starting with Japanese designed Hotels and train stations, small parks with Shinto temples soon followed. Quickly after that the Central Bank of Cosen/ Manchukuo would establish a office to give out the new currency (Manchukuo Yuan, later Manchukuo Yen) and the Manchukuo Telephone and Telegraph Company would establish their own office. Factories were build to modernize the new states, often with the help of skilled Japanese fore-workers, building automobiles, trains and train cars. By doing so this new colonial cities would become the new industrial centers of the Co-Prosperity Sphere. One of the mostly exported products of Manchukuo would be the Yellow Dragon Cigarettes (secretly known as the Opium pipe, to spread addiction).
Additional new schools and universities were build as a patriotic education base for the new states, promoting Japanese ad the new diplomatic and unifying language of the Yen Block and the Co-Prosperity Sphere. Parks and buildings with pagoda rooftops and castle-like structures promoted a Japanese styled architecture and culture. While more important located cities would be planned on drawing boards with budget sheets, the smaller towns and farm were all build after the same drain board plans. Even for western tourists and reporters, many of these new cities looked like well-planned city. Ironically this modernist urban planned cities had little in common with the old Japanese cities like Tokyo with it's tangle of narrow lanes. Instead the planners drew clean lines, circular plazas and numerous parks and even added ornate colonnaded buildings partly art deco with steam heat and flush toilets, a rarity in Japan and the rest of China in the 1930s, clearly meant to attract new settlers.
Many of the most important of government building were centered around parks and culture squares, the same was true for new movie theaters that promoted the new states and ideologies in propaganda movies that were mass produced. Datong (Grand Unity) was sarcastically promoted throughout the new states of the Co-Prosperity Sphere while secretly the Japanese tried to divide their ethnics and ideology, to weekend, japanisation and rule them all as the leading state. Besides the buildings, Japanese animals and plants were exported into the rest of the Co-Prosperity Sphere too.
Japanese pine alleys decorated many of the great avenues in the new colonial cities. So beside buildings that looked so unlike any other I the new state -or even Asia and the world- with a style of crenelated towers, porticoes, and curving roofs, stood for a modern Co-Prosperity Sphere with it's slogan of a Rising Asia. Mines were established and soy farming was encouraged an many of the new and modernized colonial Japanese towns and cities were the first ones with electrification, sewers and tram systems in all of china.
Beginning in Chosen and Manchukuo, the Japanese established small neighborhoods and later towns and cities for these countrymen who wished to migrate and colonize the new areas and flee the overpopulated Home Islands. Starting with Japanese designed Hotels and train stations, small parks with Shinto temples soon followed. Quickly after that the Central Bank of Cosen/ Manchukuo would establish a office to give out the new currency (Manchukuo Yuan, later Manchukuo Yen) and the Manchukuo Telephone and Telegraph Company would establish their own office. Factories were build to modernize the new states, often with the help of skilled Japanese fore-workers, building automobiles, trains and train cars. By doing so this new colonial cities would become the new industrial centers of the Co-Prosperity Sphere. One of the mostly exported products of Manchukuo would be the Yellow Dragon Cigarettes (secretly known as the Opium pipe, to spread addiction).
Additional new schools and universities were build as a patriotic education base for the new states, promoting Japanese ad the new diplomatic and unifying language of the Yen Block and the Co-Prosperity Sphere. Parks and buildings with pagoda rooftops and castle-like structures promoted a Japanese styled architecture and culture. While more important located cities would be planned on drawing boards with budget sheets, the smaller towns and farm were all build after the same drain board plans. Even for western tourists and reporters, many of these new cities looked like well-planned city. Ironically this modernist urban planned cities had little in common with the old Japanese cities like Tokyo with it's tangle of narrow lanes. Instead the planners drew clean lines, circular plazas and numerous parks and even added ornate colonnaded buildings partly art deco with steam heat and flush toilets, a rarity in Japan and the rest of China in the 1930s, clearly meant to attract new settlers.
Many of the most important of government building were centered around parks and culture squares, the same was true for new movie theaters that promoted the new states and ideologies in propaganda movies that were mass produced. Datong (Grand Unity) was sarcastically promoted throughout the new states of the Co-Prosperity Sphere while secretly the Japanese tried to divide their ethnics and ideology, to weekend, japanisation and rule them all as the leading state. Besides the buildings, Japanese animals and plants were exported into the rest of the Co-Prosperity Sphere too.
Japanese pine alleys decorated many of the great avenues in the new colonial cities. So beside buildings that looked so unlike any other I the new state -or even Asia and the world- with a style of crenelated towers, porticoes, and curving roofs, stood for a modern Co-Prosperity Sphere with it's slogan of a Rising Asia. Mines were established and soy farming was encouraged an many of the new and modernized colonial Japanese towns and cities were the first ones with electrification, sewers and tram systems in all of china.
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*stands with applause*
Here's to Mussolini, for being able to put Italy before his personal ambitions.
Here's to Mussolini, for being able to put Italy before his personal ambitions.
There's some hope to turn these cliques in Sphere states? Like killing the warlord and helping a philo-Japanese to become his successor.
If IJA manages to occupy their homeland are they going to make resistance in the name of Chiang or they quietly accepting to became a Sphere state?
Chapter 108: The Kingdom of Norway
Chapter 108: The Kingdom of Norway:
In the Kingdom of Norway King Haakon VII (born Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel) had lost some of it's former power to the so called Nasjonal Samling (National Union) abbreviated NS, a Norwegian Fascist Royalist and National Monarchist party active since 1933. It was the only legal party of Norway from 1942 onward. It was founded by former minister of defense Vidkun Quisling and a group of supporters for the Monarchist Europe Block such as Johan Bernhard Hjort – who led the party's paramilitary wing (Hirden) for a short time before leaving the party in 1937 after various internal conflicts. The party celebrated its founding on 17 May, Norway's national holiday, but was founded on 13 May 1933.
The party never gained direct political influence before the Second Great War, but it made its mark on Norwegian politics nonetheless. Despite the fact that it never managed to get more than 2.5% of the vote and failed to elect even one candidate to the Storting, it became a factor by polarizing the political scene. The established parties in Norway viewed it as a Norwegian version of the German National Socialists or the German National People's Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP), and generally refused to cooperate with it in any way. Several of its marches and rallies before the war were either banned, or marred by violence when communists and socialists clashed with the Hird. A significant trait of the party throughout its existence was a relatively high level of internal conflict. Antisemitism, anti-Masonry, and differing views on religion, as well as the party's association with the Germany and Fascist Royalism/ National Monarchism were hotly debated, and factioned the party. By the time the Second Great War broke out, the party had been reduced to a political sect with hardly any real activity. Strong belief in Norse Paganism, Romantis nationalism and authoritarianism dominated NS ideology. It also relied heavily on Nordic symbolism, using Vikings, pre-Christian religion and runes in its propaganda and speeches. It asserted that its symbol , a golden sun cross on a red background (colors of the coat of arms of Norway), had been the symbol of St. Olaf, painted on his shield.
When Germany invaded Norway in April 1940, Quisling marched into the studios of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation studios in Oslo and made a radio broadcast proclaiming himself Prime Minister and ordering all anti-German resistance to end immediately. However, King Haakon VII, along with the legitimate government, let it be known he would abdicate rather than appoint any government headed by Quisling. The existing government refused to step down in Quisling's favor or serve under him, and confirmed that resistance was to be continued. With no popular support, the German forces of occupation quickly thrust Quisling aside. In April 1940 the party probably only had a few hundred members, but membership rose to 22,000 in December the same year, and even to 43,400 later.
After a brief period with a civilian caretaker government (Administrasjonsrådet) appointed by the Supreme Court, the Germans took control through Quisling as the Prime Minister. He appointed a government responsible to himself, with most ministers from the ranks of Nasjonal Samling. While Quisling, was controversial in Norway as well as among the occupiers he would later become the "minister president" of the "national government". Other important ministers were Jonas Lie as minister of police, Gulbrand Lunde as minister of "popular enlightenment and propaganda", and the opera singer Albert Viljam Hagelin, who was Minister of Home Affairs. The NS administration had a certain amount of autonomy in purely civilian matters, but it was in reality controlled by the German Army and Navy whenever it came to questions of military decisions.
The new government was supported by the Hirden (the hird) a uniformed paramilitary organisation organization, modeled the same way as the German Imperial Sturmabteilungen or Wilhelms Youth. Viduk Quisling's Fascist Royalist/National Monarchist party Nasjonal Samling frequently used words and symbols from the old Norse Viking era. During the Second Great War, membership was compulsory for all Nasjonal Samling members. In total, about 8,500 Norwegians were members of Hirden during this time. During the German occupation Hirden got a more military slant. The intention was that it should form the nucleus of a future Norwegian Fascist Royalist/National Monarchist “hirdarmy” (Hirden Army), a “hirdmarine” (Hirden navy) and a "Hirdens flykorps" (Hirden's air force corps) that would later be created in 1942 in addition to the real Hirden, Rikshirden. Many Hirden members volunteered to Norwegian military units in the war, not only inside the Kingdom of Norway itself, but even those that fought on Imperial German side or served as guards in the various prison camps. Hirden had a broad mandate to conduct operations against dissidents, independent of all police authorities, many of which included the use of violence.
The Norwegian King Haakon VII, originally had no participation in any decision of the collaborationist government and stood loyal to his promise not to participate in a government under Quisling. However the Nasjonal Samling and the Hirden were greatly divided into Fascist Royalist/National Monarchist between him as the Norwegian King and Viduk Quisling, between National Norwegian Royal Monarchism and the Pan-Scandinavian Fascist Monarchist movement that aimed for a new united Scandinavian Kingdom. Thanks to this King Haakon VII managed to split the Nasjonal Samling and the Hirden partly to support him instead of Quisling. More important he was able to convince the German Emperor Wilhelm III and his loyal military and the German Military Occupation that he and his loyalist in the Nasjonal Samling and the Hirden were more trustworthy and loyal to the Axis Central Powers then these of Quisling and so the King became the new ruler of the Kingdom of Norway under German protection, while Quisling remained a head of the Nasjional Samling. Quisling was now without any real political power or authority left, since the King and the Nasjonal Samling as the new supreme legislature instead of the Sorting now ruled the Kingdom of Norway. Unknown to King Haakon VII this was partly because Quisling had been unable to stop the fighting against the Germans during the Invasion sooner, because he was so unpopular and most important, because he had been unable to secure the enormous Norwegian Merchand and Trade Fleet for the German Empire and the Axis Central Powers.
In the Kingdom of Norway King Haakon VII (born Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel) had lost some of it's former power to the so called Nasjonal Samling (National Union) abbreviated NS, a Norwegian Fascist Royalist and National Monarchist party active since 1933. It was the only legal party of Norway from 1942 onward. It was founded by former minister of defense Vidkun Quisling and a group of supporters for the Monarchist Europe Block such as Johan Bernhard Hjort – who led the party's paramilitary wing (Hirden) for a short time before leaving the party in 1937 after various internal conflicts. The party celebrated its founding on 17 May, Norway's national holiday, but was founded on 13 May 1933.
The party never gained direct political influence before the Second Great War, but it made its mark on Norwegian politics nonetheless. Despite the fact that it never managed to get more than 2.5% of the vote and failed to elect even one candidate to the Storting, it became a factor by polarizing the political scene. The established parties in Norway viewed it as a Norwegian version of the German National Socialists or the German National People's Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP), and generally refused to cooperate with it in any way. Several of its marches and rallies before the war were either banned, or marred by violence when communists and socialists clashed with the Hird. A significant trait of the party throughout its existence was a relatively high level of internal conflict. Antisemitism, anti-Masonry, and differing views on religion, as well as the party's association with the Germany and Fascist Royalism/ National Monarchism were hotly debated, and factioned the party. By the time the Second Great War broke out, the party had been reduced to a political sect with hardly any real activity. Strong belief in Norse Paganism, Romantis nationalism and authoritarianism dominated NS ideology. It also relied heavily on Nordic symbolism, using Vikings, pre-Christian religion and runes in its propaganda and speeches. It asserted that its symbol , a golden sun cross on a red background (colors of the coat of arms of Norway), had been the symbol of St. Olaf, painted on his shield.
When Germany invaded Norway in April 1940, Quisling marched into the studios of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation studios in Oslo and made a radio broadcast proclaiming himself Prime Minister and ordering all anti-German resistance to end immediately. However, King Haakon VII, along with the legitimate government, let it be known he would abdicate rather than appoint any government headed by Quisling. The existing government refused to step down in Quisling's favor or serve under him, and confirmed that resistance was to be continued. With no popular support, the German forces of occupation quickly thrust Quisling aside. In April 1940 the party probably only had a few hundred members, but membership rose to 22,000 in December the same year, and even to 43,400 later.
After a brief period with a civilian caretaker government (Administrasjonsrådet) appointed by the Supreme Court, the Germans took control through Quisling as the Prime Minister. He appointed a government responsible to himself, with most ministers from the ranks of Nasjonal Samling. While Quisling, was controversial in Norway as well as among the occupiers he would later become the "minister president" of the "national government". Other important ministers were Jonas Lie as minister of police, Gulbrand Lunde as minister of "popular enlightenment and propaganda", and the opera singer Albert Viljam Hagelin, who was Minister of Home Affairs. The NS administration had a certain amount of autonomy in purely civilian matters, but it was in reality controlled by the German Army and Navy whenever it came to questions of military decisions.
The new government was supported by the Hirden (the hird) a uniformed paramilitary organisation organization, modeled the same way as the German Imperial Sturmabteilungen or Wilhelms Youth. Viduk Quisling's Fascist Royalist/National Monarchist party Nasjonal Samling frequently used words and symbols from the old Norse Viking era. During the Second Great War, membership was compulsory for all Nasjonal Samling members. In total, about 8,500 Norwegians were members of Hirden during this time. During the German occupation Hirden got a more military slant. The intention was that it should form the nucleus of a future Norwegian Fascist Royalist/National Monarchist “hirdarmy” (Hirden Army), a “hirdmarine” (Hirden navy) and a "Hirdens flykorps" (Hirden's air force corps) that would later be created in 1942 in addition to the real Hirden, Rikshirden. Many Hirden members volunteered to Norwegian military units in the war, not only inside the Kingdom of Norway itself, but even those that fought on Imperial German side or served as guards in the various prison camps. Hirden had a broad mandate to conduct operations against dissidents, independent of all police authorities, many of which included the use of violence.
The Norwegian King Haakon VII, originally had no participation in any decision of the collaborationist government and stood loyal to his promise not to participate in a government under Quisling. However the Nasjonal Samling and the Hirden were greatly divided into Fascist Royalist/National Monarchist between him as the Norwegian King and Viduk Quisling, between National Norwegian Royal Monarchism and the Pan-Scandinavian Fascist Monarchist movement that aimed for a new united Scandinavian Kingdom. Thanks to this King Haakon VII managed to split the Nasjonal Samling and the Hirden partly to support him instead of Quisling. More important he was able to convince the German Emperor Wilhelm III and his loyal military and the German Military Occupation that he and his loyalist in the Nasjonal Samling and the Hirden were more trustworthy and loyal to the Axis Central Powers then these of Quisling and so the King became the new ruler of the Kingdom of Norway under German protection, while Quisling remained a head of the Nasjional Samling. Quisling was now without any real political power or authority left, since the King and the Nasjonal Samling as the new supreme legislature instead of the Sorting now ruled the Kingdom of Norway. Unknown to King Haakon VII this was partly because Quisling had been unable to stop the fighting against the Germans during the Invasion sooner, because he was so unpopular and most important, because he had been unable to secure the enormous Norwegian Merchand and Trade Fleet for the German Empire and the Axis Central Powers.
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The possibility is there, but we will see if the Japanese manage to do so.
As long as Chiang is with the Communists in a United Front they will oppose him just like they will oppose the Japanese, but some might join Wang's Nanjing Government maybe.