Blackened Skies

[Robert Can't]

Transcript of a Radio Interview 28th March 18:00 Local Time

Harry: Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen. I’m Harry Jameson here to bring you an exclusive interview with acting Governor General Marcy Barge.
Barge was born to ICS parents in Calcutta in 1898 and has lived in India for the majority of his life. In fact the only time in his life where he did not reside here was when he was taking his ICS exams in England. Barge was quick to rise up in the ranks of the service and formed a very competent working relationship with the at the time Secretary of State for India the Viscount Trevelyan. Together they worked to build up India’s infrastructure and bring all the perks of being British to the people of India.
In recent years Barge became head of the ICS in India and along with Undersecratry of State Sir George Pendleton and the Governor General he was instrumental in the enacting of the Indian Education Act and the following acts supporting it.
Good Evening Marcy.

Marcy: Good Evening to you too Harry. It is a pleasure to be here as ever.

Harry: Before we begin talking about the constitutional debates going on a Nuwara Eliya do you think you could tell us about the arrangements going on for the memorial service in Bombay?

Marcy: Of course Harry, the memorial service will be taking place on the 8th of April in the St. Thomas Cathedral. It will be a sung service with Eucharist. The Chapel Choir of St Edmund’s College, Bombay will be singing the service. The setting is Byrd for 5 Voices, anthem is Lloyd’s View Me Lord and the Hymns are He Who Would Valliant Be, How shall I sing that majesty, and And did those feet in Ancient Times. Service begins at 2 O’clock in the afternoon and is presided over by the Rev. Dr. Amy Stevenson.

Harry: Many Thanks, do you think you could also explain about how you can hear the service?

Marcy: Indeed, invitations have been extended to a huge number of high ranking people in the ICS, Nuwara Eliya and the Princes. However there is limited space in the historic building so the service will be broadcast over radio.

Harry: I’ll certainly be turning into that. Now then Marcy, most people have you pegged as the successor to Trevelyan for the Governor-Generalship but numerous complications have arisen due to the lack of a Secretary of State for India could you tell us what this is all about.

Marcy: Well as you probably know the Governor-General is appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the Secretary of State however since Parliament was dissolved by the Black and Tans there hasn’t been a Secretary of State for India.

Harry: Well why can’t we just nominate someone from Nuwara Eliya, aren’t they constitutionally a continuation of the old Parliament?

Marcy: Yes but Nuwara Eliya’s Authority is not recognised outside of India. If the Queen were to acknowledge our advice on his issue it would be an acknowledgement on her part of the legitimacy of Nuwara Eliya which goes against the will of the Black and Tans.

Harry: So How are you intending to proceed?

Marcy: That’s what the convention going on in Nuwara Eliya is designed to decide. Of course when Trevelyan called it back in January we had no idea what was going to happen so now things have really been kicked into overdrive. Mattie Storin took the first available train down to Ceylon after the rail repairs were completed and there are hopes that a consensus will be reached by the end of the month.

Harry: Well in the meantime what if the Queen decides to appoint you to the role?

Marcy: In a way that would be the best possible outcome. We wouldn’t need to put forward a formal recommendation so the Queen wouldn’t feel she was acknowledging Nuwara Eliya. But until anything happens I will continue to do my best to ensure that the trains keep running and everything goes over smoothly. Myself, Sir George Pendleton and General Hay will be doing our best to make sure that nothing goes wrong.

Harry: Speaking of which can you tell us about any developments over the military occupation of Goa?

Marcy: As of yet we have no reached an agreement with the local authorities in Goa or with the Portuguese government and sadly there isn’t much I’m at liberty to talk about on that issue.

Harry: Well thank you very much for your time and I wish you all the best for the future.

Marcy: You too Harry.

India Mobilises to 10%

 

[tobiisagoodboy]

It has been a a few days since the Goverment rejected the German terms of surrender and Rome has been going crazy since then, young boys and old man streaned to recruitment offices.
Workers, who until had been considerd to precise to be sent to the frontline are now demostrating to fight, while women demand to fill the holes in the factories.
Of course, without Piedmont, Savoy and Venetia, Italy is weakend, but everywhere in the unoccupied regions, from Rome to Messina, even in Benghazi and Mogadishu, numerour people ask to fight this last, deciding struggle for Italy.

Again King Umberto is holding a speech in front of the Royal palace and this time, it seems like more than just Rome has gatherd around him, every plaza and every street, ever door and every window seems to be filled with people.

"Italians, comrades, brothers and sisters. I know that many of you have brought sacrifices for Italy, which were beyond what a normal human could imagine. Mothers lost all their sons on the front and even their old husbands now march against the socialist threat, while their daughters work in the factories to keep our country running.
The Italian people have done things nether done before, for years we now fought a tide of never ending attacks and held out longer than anybody every imagined.
We will keep on fighting, we will mobilize every last spark of strenght we have, we will use it to fight them. We will fight them in Rome, we will fight them Neaples and in Salerno.
We'll even fight them in Tripolis and in Mogadischu if we have to.
We will fight for freedom, for our freedom and for the freedom of all people, no matter, for which shallow reason supresses them.
No matter if they claim to be Socialists, Christians or a superior race. In the end they are nothing but monsters and bastard, raping even their own people to satisfy they selfish demands.
They are demons, out of the deepest pits of hell, but we will not yield. We will not give, we will not bow.
No ! Italy will stand, it wil stand strong and it continue to stand, long after the names of those attacking us are long forgotten.
SO LET US FIGHT ! FIGHT FOR ITALY ! FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE !"
Millions of voices, millions of cheers and roar answerd him, lesser man would not have been able to see and hear something like this without going crazy.
It was the sound of a nation that would fight even against the devil himself.


OOC: I hope this clears any remaining confussion concerning Italy.

 

[talonschild]

South Africa set mobilization to 20%.

 

[Nuka-sama]

Alsace-Lorraine joins the PCC in conjunction with its allies in France and Germany

 

[Terran Empress]

Speach from the Australasian Prime Minister, upon the Resignation of the Military General in 1936

People of Australasia, It is with pride and joy in my voice that I declare that today you are free, today we are free. Liberty and Democracy reign in Australasia, and I applaud the former military governor's resignation and his peaceful transfer of power to the people. The government of Australasia will continue to work on making our state more free and democratic, we shall continue to expand education, industry, and opportunity to the people of Australasia, and the people of the world. We shall continue to expand democracy both inside and outside of our borders, this year we will begin drafting a new constitution that will guarantee voting for all citizens while expanding the citizenry of our great nation. Democracy and freedom will continue to expand, and to ensure this Australasia is committed to the expansion of democracy throughout the world and within its own borders. However, the continued and expanded immigration to Australasia has placed a strain on our bureaucracy, and these men and women come seeking refuge and a new life, and citizenship. I wish to say that these men and women are not forgotten, and the government of Australasia is committed to the creation an easier, more straightforward path to citizenship and the vote.

However while democracy has flourished in Australasia, the “Land of the Free” has turned their back on their original commitments to liberty and democracy. The United States has turned their back on democracy, becoming no better than the tyranny that they once fought their independence from. They have become just as tyrannical and imperialistic, seeking the domination over peoples, and the exploitation of colonies. They have become less democratic and less free over time leaving power in the hands of a few aristocratic elites. They wish to enslave people rather than free them. They once called themselves the Empire of Liberty, now they are just an empire. The title of an empire of liberty has been passed onto Australasia itself, we continue to fight for liberty, for democracy. We must fight for the continuation of this great system, where the United States has failed to do. We must unite the last remaining democracies of the world in a common goal of the expansion of the will of the people. Even now the United States is in the middle of a civil war, a war for the freedom and liberty of the American Peoples, and Australasia CAN NOT stand idly by as the people of America, The Philippines, Japan, Canada, Cuba, and the Caribbean are exploited, enslaved, and murdered. We call upon the people of the Australasia, and the world to join the Australasian Military and the Australian Foreign Guard, to do all they can to fight this injustice and tyranny on the world. We call upon the freedom loving people of the world to unite against this evil empire, and to once again bring freedom and justice for all!​

(ooc: I have work very soon, and can't get orders in before I have to go, my orders will be in shortly after I get home but might be a little late, sorry, I hope that is ok)

 

[gay_Aleks]

We would like to applaud the Australasian Prime Minister for his noble words that contain the truth that has to be said to all peoples across the globe. It is time for another country to take upon the mantle of protecting those who cannot; and we believe that Australasia might just be the country to do so.

 

[Terran Empress]

Creation of the Democratic League​

Australasia has Joined with the Grand Republic of Latin America to form the Democratic League, an international organization aimed at protecting and expanding democracy across the world.

The Democratic League would like to invite The Han Republic and Spain to join the league and add their own concerns to our own.

 

[tobiisagoodboy]

Italy would like to seek cooperation with the League. A Full memebership is no option, due to the ongoing war, but the few true democracies that remain should work together.

 

[Robert Can't]

Despite the recent moves distancing Australasia from the Commonwealth the Government of India will continue to maintain close ties with our allies in the East. India, Australasia and the Han Republic have worked together on many occasions and it will be the pleasure of he acting Governor-General to continue this relationship whatever happens.​

 

[J.K. Stockholme]

Map of Ruhr Expansion 1912-1936​

The fantastic projects of the capitalist class have eclipsed all former societies in their scale – from the Panama and Suez canals, to international undersea communication cables, to the railroads of America, or the British system of global freight transport: the bourgeoisie have out-produced the great works of all ancient civilizations combined. The crown jewel of this ceaseless competitive race to ever greater industrial heights was the Ruhr District of the German Empire.

What is "the Ruhr" exactly? What does this name signify?

Spoiler :

Prior to the advance of capitalism in Germany the Ruhr referred exclusively to a tributary river of the Rhine. On the Ruhr's banks sat the burgeoning industrial cities of Duisburg and Essen, which together with Bochum, Dortmund and Dusseldorf formed what sometime between 1880 and 1900 became known as the Ruhr Valley or Ruhr District.

Perfected through decades of investment and innovation, the Ruhr was transformed into the single most productive economic unit in the world. All of the factors of production were concentrated in this small part of Europe: there lay the coal, lumber and mineral wealth needed for industry. These natural resources were intimately tied to a sprawling urban metropolis of factories whose productive pace only increased every year even into the war that ended the German Empire. The Ruhr resembled a large machine, each moving part closely connected to the health of every other.

The hubris of the capitalists was their downfall. They tried to turn this awesome feat of industrial engineering against the workers of France, and so dug their graves in pursuit of industrial perfection. When the Ruhr workers revolted, the banishment of the managerial class left the great machine intact – the factory managers were a vestigial parasite, long obsoleted by the rhythm of the working day in the most interconnected industrial core of the world. The workers of the Ruhr hardly needed to seize weapons – they were making most of the country’s guns and munitions themselves!

Since the Revolution on the Rhine, the political boundaries of the Ruhr have outstripped its definition during the era of private property. Under the leadership of Wolfgang Jäger the amorphous communities of revolutionary western Germany were united into the Collective Republic. The Ruhr experienced a period of expansion expanded through the democratic integration of various other German workers' republics until the "three Germanies" formalized their respective jurisdictions in 1927.

Meanwhile, the Collectivist Party continues to stitch together cities ever farther afield into a contiguous bloc of German industry within which the Ruhr remains its largest constituent. This makes the precise borders of the Ruhr District as an industrial zone rather fuzzy too.

The Ruhr is an industrial area, the Ruhr is a political unit, but the Ruhr is also in part an imaginary place. The Ruhr is a fable of bourgeois arrogance and working class courage. May the Ruhr unite workers of all lands - protecting their collective interests, improving their economic welfare, and expanding their political imagination.

 

[Masada]

The United States fully mobilises.

 

[Terran Empress]

Australasia mobilizes to 50%/High alert

No party has declared war, but we wouldn't put it past the americans to sneak attack us

 

[Seon]

Ooc: is the USA going total war... Against itself? 0_o

 

[Tyo]

The Democratic Republic of Brazil recognizes all of the new American states.

sorry for being late busy week ok

 

[Ogane]

The Democratic Republic of Brazil recognizes all of the new American states.

sorry for being late busy week ok

The United Socialist States of America would like to formally thank the Democratic Republic of Brazil for its support.

We will also be fully mobilizing (hope it's not too late for that)

 

[Masada]

The United States is the least of Australasia's problems.

 

[Double A]

Presumably the most of their problems is openly defying their rightful overlord in this manner.

 

[Masada]

The British Government has assured the United States that it has no tolerence for treason and that the United States should know that the affair is well in hand.

 

[Golgol395]

The Prussian Legion Is here also I am a noob

 

[gay_Aleks]

for the first time I sent in orders before it's announced in thread they're locked

yay