Global News Report
NIPPONESE EXPEDITION CLAIMS ANTARCTICA. A Nipponese military expedition has moved to Antarctica and established several minor weather bases. Another group moved to the South Pole and planted the flag of the Rising Sun upon it. The Nipponese move has been met by suspicion, particularly in the United States and the Soviet Union.
GLOBAL ECONOMIC RECOVERY CONTINUES. Despite increasing tensions between the growing power blocs of ATO, Islam, and the USSR, many regions have continued to prosper. The Depression seems well and truly over as new trade opens and the world heads to a new era of peace. The opening of a new Pacific-Atlantic Canal in Central America has caused a new trade revolution for trade from the East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere to Europe. Other investments pour from America into the Middle East and former Liberia. Trade continues to flourish within ATO as trade barriers still keep falling to its members. Below is a chart listing who has gained how much IC:
+3 Private Enterprise IC: Nicaragua
+2 Private Enterprise IC: Nippon, Argentina, Dar-al-Islam, Vietnam
+1 Private Enterprise IC: USA, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Scandinavia, Eire, Scotland, UCS, Bourbon Empire, Germany, Serbia, Albania, Hungary, Turkey, Persia, West African Union, Liberia, South Africa, Siam, Guangxi
North/Central American News Report
NICARAGUA: A NEW ECONOMIC POWER. Managua, Nicaragua. Thanks to spectacular investment from a variety of nations across the world, the Nicaraguan Canal has opened, offering an opposition route to the American controlled Panama Canal. Investors from the American Accord, the Indochinese Alliance, and the Brotherhood of Islamic Nations all contributed to the ahead of schedule completion of the great canal. Furthermore, Nicaragua is quickly becoming the economic leader of the American Accord as Nicaraguan investors beat Argentines to investments in more impoverished regions of South America, Africa, and the Islamic nations. See above for more information on the global economic boom.
South American news Report
European News Report
USSR ANNOUNCES NEW PLAN FOR POLAND. St. Petersburg, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Cutting short the 1933 Four Year Plan, Chairman Trotsky has announced a new Three Year Plan to replace it. New factories and industries have been established in eastern Poland despite heavy resistance still remaining. Skilled workers from the rest of the Soviet Union have been brought in to man the new industry and help collectivize the farmlands. However, foreign press, particularly in Germany, has reported an increasing amount of Poles being shipped east to unknown locations via cattle train. The Lodz Republic has protested Soviet atrocities in managing eastern Poland. Several Polish divisions have continued to fight on as guerrilla fighters in the Soviet Union, hitting as far north as Riga and as far east as Kiev. (+2 Public Spending for USSR; -2 Militia Divisions for USSR)
ITALIANS DISCOVER WEAPONS NEAR ROME. Rome, Italy. In a small village near Rome a massive weapons cache was discovered. Enough modern military apparatus to equip over five fully armed infantry divisions and even tanks to equip an armored brigade were discovered. Concealed in a large network of caves and caverns, many Italians wonder how the government missed such a stockpile. The weapons were indentified as positively being produced in Greece and the Soviet Union and local interrogation has confirmed that people who had been previously arrested as communists were responsible for smuggling the weapons in.
SCANDINAVIA COMPLETES WALL. Stockholm, United Kingdoms of Scandinavia. In a secretive move in late 1935, the Scandinavians spent a large amount of funds on completing the controversial Finnish security wall which angered the Soviet Union in 1927. All border entries have been closed along the Soviet-Scandinavian frontier, with exception of a single entrance near Helsinki. Chairman Trotsky has yet to be reached for comment on this latest development in increasing ATO-Soviet tensions.
BOURBON EMPIRE PROCLAIMED. Madrid, Bourbon Empire. King Alfonso XIII has declared the reformation of a combined Bourbon Empire in a wild celebration in Madrid. Met with incredible support by almost everyone in the nation, the proclamation has been heard across the world. New France, formerly the refuge of remaining French nationalists, has rejoined the new Empire. Other calls to return to Bourbon have been heard in peaceful protests in Quebec where American soldiers nearly provoked a riot after a careless shot was fired. Claims have also been against the Irish Occupation Zone in France and Italy, which occupied large parts of the former French Empire.
African/Middle Eastern News Report
SURPRISE ELECTION UPSET IN PERSIA. Tehran, Persia. The long underground Liberal Party has managed to turn out the Pan-Islamist Party in Persia. The anti-militarist regime has pledged to reduce the military budget to a reasonable degree and to increase social spending to assist in the countrys reformation. Despite this the new Persian regime have agreed to maintain commitments to the defensive pact of the Brotherhood of Islamic Nations. The following war games between the Persians and Dar-al-Islam in the Red Sea bear demonstration to the continued strength of the alliance.
Asian/Pacific News Report
NEW KING OF AFGHANISTAN. Kabul, Afghanistan. With the death of Nadir Shah, the old king of Afghanistan, the country underwent a brief period of turmoil through late 1934 and 1935. The kings son Nadir lasted for a mere two months, but after pledging support to ideas for a constitutional monarchy, he was quickly removed by a clerical cabal. The kings second son, Mohammed Shah has been proclaimed the newest king of Afghanistan. King Shah has pledged greater support to the Brotherhood of Islamic nations and the cause of unified Islam. (+5% dissent for Afghanistan)
NIPPON ANNOUNCES MAJOR REFORM. Tokyo, Nippon. The Nipponese Empire is no more. The expanses of imperial control have been reformed into a federalist nation. Based loosely on the United States of America, the empire has been divided into ten states which all answer to a national Kokkai in Tokyo. A Prime Minister continues to be elected by the member of the national Kokkai, however the individual states of the new republic have nearly complete autonomy. To allow for emergencies however the new Constitution has allowed for a temporary office of Premier, who would form a centralized government in times of national emergency. The federated republics first elections will be held every four years, starting with 1936.
INDOCHINESE ALLIANCE CONFIRMS NEW MEMBERS. Saigon, Vietnam. Though Guangxi was technically admitted in 1934, an official conference would not be held until mid-May 1935 in Saigon. However both Siam and Vietnam agreed to allow the powers of Nippon and Guangxi into the growing economic bloc. Already the Indochinese Alliance has begun stepping into the economic role played by China prior to the Chinese Civil War. See information above for more information on the economic boom.
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CONSERVATIVES WIN VIETNAMESE ELECTIONS.
LIBERALS MAINTAIN POWER IN UNEASY SOCIALIST-LIBERAL COALITION IN SIAMESE ELECTIONS.
IRISH? NOT LIVING IN IRELAND? ABANDON THOSE DANK AND DREARY LIVES IN NEW YORK OR AUSTRALIA! MIGRATE TO NEW IRELAND AND LORD IT OVER DEPRESSED FRENCH COMMUNISTS WHILE DRINKING GUINNESS!
GERMANY ANNOUNCES END OF RECONSTRUCTION PROGRAM WITH REELECTION OF CONSERVATIVES AS AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY.
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Steel Aircraft, Bombers, Military Radio, Monoplanes, advanced piston fighters, Anti-tank weapons, and anti-air weapons have all been removed since everyone already has them all.
@Czreth, you cant build rocketeer squadrons, you dont have military rockets. Also Nippon paid 3 not 6, so I just completely cut out the amount you would have built on rocketeer squadrons.
@germanicus, you already have advanced piston engines, instead I gave you two jet fighter squadrons
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