Capto Iugulum: 1920 - 1939

[Lord_Iggy]

Medical Professionals, I hope. >_>

 

[Lord of Elves]

Medical Professionals, I hope. >_>

Professional bikini models, why?

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Sauna time!

ITT: Scandinavian and Vinlandic doctors agree on the therapeutic benefit of the Sauna.

 

[Nailix]

Italy may have to keep the Scandinavian professionals for a little while longer to... uhh... help with some experiments.

 

[Milarqui]

To: Libya
From: Federación Española de Balompié

It is sad that you have chosen to follow the steps of Egypt and chosen to blind yourself to the truth. But, very well. If you are that fearful of seeing your team being defeated in the football pitch, then that's your choice.

To: World
From: Federación Española de Balompié
Unless there are more asinine and infantile boycott attempts by nations unable to see that the Balompié World Cup should be considered an apolitical event, this should be the making of the tournament.
Group Phase: June 17th-29th. A round robin phase, each team plays once against the other teams in its group. The first two teams in each group will pass to the next round.
- Group A (Madrid, León): Spain, Angola, Japan, Mayaland
- Group B (León, Valencia): Brazil, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Occitania
- Group C (Valencia, Sevilla): Denmark, Hispaniola, Peru, Aztlan
- Group D (Sevilla, Madrid): Cataluña, India, Venezuela, Abyssinia
Quarterfinals: July 1st-2nd
- Quarterfinal 1 (Q1) (Madrid): 1st Group A vs 2nd Group B
- Quarterfinal 2 (Q2) (León): 1st Group B vs 2nd Group A
- Quarterfinal 3 (Q3) (Valencia): 1st Group C vs 2nd Group D
- Quarterfinal 4 (Q4) (Sevilla): 1st Group D vs 2nd Group C
Semifinals: July 3rd-4th
- Semifinal 1 (Madrid): Winner Q1 vs Winner Q2
- Semifinal 2 (Madrid): Winner Q3 vs Winner Q4
3rd place match (Seville): July 6th
Final (Madrid): July 7th

 

[christos200]

Hollande protests that Burgundy is not part of the Balompié World Cup.

 

[Milarqui]

Hollande protests that Burgundy is not part of the Balompié World Cup.

The Burgundian Balompié National Team was unable to qualify for the tournament. Best of luck for the 1938 World Cup!

 

[Jehoshua]

I don't understand how anyone could take seriously the idea that the Protestant Reformation could somehow be reversed. Unless Jehoshua is self-consciously posturing for the sake of it.

Reversal is improbable and unlikely to occur generally, but it is not impossible. Likewise particularly at a more localised level the conversion of protestant lands to Catholicism is quite achievable with holy men and much effort, which is what I was referring too when I said what I said. (even though what I did say was merely for the sake of calling for conversion, after all I need to play the part of the authority Im responsible for in-game).

 

[christos200]

Treaty of Gabon

1. Gabon will allow French businessmen to retain property rights in Gabon.

2. In exchange, Burgundy will guarantee the independence of Gabon and pledge to protect it from predatory nations

Signed,

Emperor Joseph II
Chancellor Alexander Hollande
Commander Charles De Gaulle

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

Gabon signs the treaty with Burgundy.

 

[spryllino]

Goodness me. Infernal nationalists can't even do nationalism properly. The Septembrists would never have freed the golliwogs and abandoned the dark continent to savagery.

 

[Ahigin]

Goodness me. Infernal nationalists can't even do nationalism properly. The Septembrists would never have freed the golliwogs and abandoned the dark continent to savagery.

In my mind, giving African rebels a protectorate status is the only way to keep one's face at this stage of Capto Iugulum. The irony is that Christos200 made this decision straight after Hitler's Hollande's fervent war speech.

 

[theDright]

TO: Argentina
FROM: Brazil

If you seek no war, then why are you building military bunkers and buying Russian made equipment? We are not buying Japanese equipment or inviting their influence into the Americas. The Amagi-class Battlecruiser is a gift from the Spanish government, using Spanish designs of an original Japanese creation. You are directly investing in the absolutist regime of Russia by purchasing heavy armored hardware. Your actions concern Brazil. Your actions appear to be preludes to war.

Military bunkers are for defensive protection of personnel in case of attack. Tanks are for our protection; we have not invested money in Russia. You can understand our confusion, when Brazil has signed treaties with Japan. Our actions should not concern Brazil unless Brazil has hostile intent, which it insists it doesn't.

The United States of America is not our ally. We have no part in the war with the UPRA. However, we do wish to see that regime destroyed and the defendants of it swiftly dealt with. The United States is a better government than the Syndic Scipio can provide. Do you deny this? Our invasion of Jamaica is the first land war Brazil has participated in in a decade. We have not sent fighting men to any other combat zone. So your allegations of warmongering are unfounded.

When evidence of secret pacts with the US reaches our ears, we have a right to be concerned. The United States still has rampant discrimination against negroes, and especially those who wish to participate in government. Our concern is not for the Proletarist dictators or institutions in these countries, but the people. The United States has offered nothing to reassure us of the rights of these people after this war. While certainly the United States government, with many of the same institutions of Argentina, is a more fair and just form of government than the UPRA our concerns are valid, and should not be merely rejected as 'Proletarist sympathies.' Our economic system is one of the most non-interventionist in the Americas and our society one of the most open and free. It is an insult as well as a misstatement, to suggest otherwise.

Building bunkers and a large armored fighting force, that only serves the purpose of war, is an act of aggression to all of South America. Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay are your neighbors, yet you wish to defend against them when no threat has ever been brought to you? Building military installations on the border with Brazil is the same as a declaration of war. They serve no purpose but to rile the people against you. We fear for our women and children. How dare you break our trust?

Bunkers again, are part of our renovation of our defense and security structures. Bunkers have no offensive purposes, at least ours' don't. An appropriate-sized armored fighting force allows us to defend ourselves from the rampant anti-liberalism and anti-Protestantism in Chile, which Brazil seemingly approves of. Our border with Chile has been militarized by the Chileans for years, for no reason, and we have not overreacted as Brazil has. The Paraguayan and Uruguayan governments have not instigated any official anti-Argentine policies, but Brazil has. The only thing that is the same as a declaration of war is a declaration of war; we offer none. Your singling out Argentina for special Moralist treatment has served no purpose but to agitate our society and impoverish our citizens. We fear for the safety of our citizens and our way-of-life, which Brazil seems determined to undermine. Brazil has demonstrated that it does not trust Argentina, even though it has never once shared Brazilian designs with others, has fought in every war, it appears, as Brazil has, and shares the ideal of democratic republicanism, which Brazil has so often promoted. Brazil refuses to cooperate with Argentina in military matters, institutes embargoes on one of our major industries in a time of recession with no previous attempts at less drastic and aggressive measures, and has undermined the pursuit of free and republican societies in Chile and Nicaragua, for no reason other than that they are 'Moralist.'

If you invade us, we will win. If you seek an arms race, we will win. Do not bring your soldiers against Brazil or her allies without understanding how the world works. If you use these weapons against innocent people, Brazil will stop you. You would be no better than the Russian absolutists.

Again, as we have repeated numerous times, we have no interest in invading Brazil. We seek no arms race, but Brazil has rapidly expanded it's navy, one of the largest and best equipped in the world, for no reason. It has overinvested in airplanes, forcing an arms race on that front. Rebuilding post-war is one thing; it has been a decade and Brazil has survived with it's superior navy so-far, why rapidly expand now? Argentina has no reason to interfere in other states, as long as these states respect our rights as well. Argentina has not used weapons against any innocents, nor will it.

This is the immorality of your government brought before the world stage. Do not betray your brothers before God.

Our government is not immoral. Argentina suggests Brazil reform its' own society before it lectures us on our own. If Brazil is so moral, demonstrate it. Certainly we will follow, as well as the rest of the world, if Brazil is on the right path. We have asked Brazil to retract its' statement of our 'Proletarist sympathies' as an overreaction, nothing more. We have asked Brazil to promote minimal violence against civilians in the war in the United States. We will not betray the peace, even though it seems Brazil, our oldest ally, has abandoned respect for Argentine sovereignty or concerns.

 

[christos200]

In my mind, giving African rebels a protectorate status is the only way to keep one's face at this stage of Capto Iugulum. The irony is that Christos200 made this decision straight after Hitler's Hollande's fervent war speech.

You should paint Hollande.

Also, I have my reasons for giving them independence.

 

[spryllino]

In my mind, giving African rebels a protectorate status is the only way to keep one's face at this stage of Capto Iugulum. The irony is that Christos200 made this decision straight after Hitler's Hollande's fervent war speech.

Meh. I would have garrisoned the place properly, put detailed contingencies in place, and made a mutual cooperation arrangement with the Spanish or the Brits to crush each other's rebellions. The inability of European powers to hold onto colonies against African rebels strikes me as plain incompetence.

 

[christos200]

I am not the one who lost the whole of France.

 

[theDright]

OOC: Agreed. The Europeans have become unwilling to commit anything to hold onto colonies, unlike the end of CI:E&N. Where's the rampant crushing of colonial insurrection in Africa? Granted, Spain, the Confederation, and the Kongo are much reduced, but Britain, Germany, the Russians, and even the Romans probably don't have any excuse for either holding onto them or taking more advantage than they have.

 

[spryllino]

OOC: There ought to be a Recolonialisation International movement to promote the lapsed cause of civilising and exploiting the negroes... I think that would fit potentially quite well into a number of current political trends.

 

[Ahigin]

OOC: Agreed. The Europeans have become unwilling to commit anything to hold onto colonies, unlike the end of CI:E&N. Where's the rampant crushing of colonial insurrection in Africa? Granted, Spain, the Confederation, and the Kongo are much reduced, but Britain, Germany, the Russians, and even the Romans probably don't have any excuse for either holding onto them or taking more advantage than they have.

I think the Europeans are just preparing for a large European war and don't want to be caught in it with a good chunk of their forces away in Africa.

 

[BILLSIF]

OOC: The European Colonial slave drivers have merely realized the true futility of keeping the rightfully free people of African in chains! No longer shall the African accept his bondage by the two-bit powers which populate Europe. The people of African have a had not a 'il bitty spark lit inside their hearts, but a raging inferno! And it shall consume the defunct & oppressive ways of European Imperialism! And it shan't be put out till all of Africa is free, and bells of liberty ring from Cario to Cape Town! (Or the Europeans brutally massacre us all, whatever happens first really )

Besides, I for one think this earlier liberation of Africa very unique, and an interesting thing about CI.