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The Federation of Malaysia of Maziya

Oh my...the Mongolians

Al-said sultanate

        السعيد سلطنة عمان
        
        معقل الاباضية 
        
        السلطان سعيد بن تيمور

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      NATIONAL PARLIAMENT OF OMAN PASSES ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN TO CONNECT MUSCAT TO SALALAH
      13TH SULTANATE OF OMAN | MUSCAT, SEPTEMBER 1938

    | البرلمان الوطني العماني ، مسقط ، سلطنة عمان - | Upon the closure of the first held elections for the National Parliament of Oman, the government was now predominantly in the hands of a combination of tribal elders, warlords, and members of a very small educated elite. Presiding over the government session, Sultain Said bin Taimur made it clear that Omanis have to determine their future for themselves and make better current conditions. Although a majority of tribal elders made it clear that they are skeptical of major industrialization that could otherwise prompt a corrosion of the historical lineage and customs of Omanis. The elected warlords would slightly agree with the tribal elders; however, stressed importance of implemented modernization but in stages so that it can be controlled. Moreover, the warlords stressed the need for development that can bring growth to security of the nation. The educated representatives also agreed with both the warlords and tribal elders; however, wanted to prioritize expanded education as the start for development instead of keeping education as a privilege to a small percentage of the population.

    Heated debates and renegotiations prompted for the appointed representatives for Sultan Said bin Taimur would implement a royal motion to force government sessions to commence in Muscat that would not end until an initial resolution was agreed upon. After two weeks of debate and contemplation, the NPO agreed to infrastructure initiatives to spur the transition of the economy from a primary to secondary. While agriculture and fishing is still significant for the traditionalist society of Oman, the NPO came to agree on implementing new road infrastructure to be inspected and modernized every two years per mandate; however, repairs, inspections, and modernization can be ordered at any moment. The first major stretch of road infrastructure will connect Muscat to Salalah, Ash Shuwaymiyyah, and Duqm. Additionally, NPO has incorporated road infrastructure for Gwadar to be included in this endeavor.

    Meanwhile, the NPO further attached an education initiative to the road infrastructure to acquire some funding to begin the formation of formalized education for all Omanis. As 15% of the population is literate, the Sultan provided a personal seal of approval for the 15% of the population to coordinate among themselves and the Supreme Council for Islamic Accordance and Guidance to organize both religious and secular academic framework and institutions. |

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        SULTANATE OF OMAN!
        
        PRAISE BE TO MOHAMMAD, PEACE BE UPON HIM!
        
        THE BASTION OF IBADISM!

Aroviona

Salve! Hello!

La granadinas

    September 1938
    Club de Oficiales

Santa María de la Santísima Trinidad, Cundinamarca Department, Triestado de las Granadinas

Military strongman General Diego Adielo Di María would form an alternative party to the Conservative and Liberal Parties, hoping to take the reigns before the rapidly deteriorating reputation of the Conservative party, caused by inadequate response to Peruvian aggression during the Leticia Incident, could lead to an uncontested Liberal takeover, threatening to end three decades of conservative rule over Granada. Fearing that the Liberals would reinstate diplomatic relations with Peru and ratify the Rio De Janeiro Protocol. General Di María and his associates General Alberto Enríquez Gallo, General Eleazar López Contreras and Lieutenant Colonel Gustavo Rojas Pinilla would found the Partido Nacionalista Granadina (PNG) or Granadine Nationalist Party made up of military officials or those with links to the military apparatus such as defence contractors, championing catholic conservative values, Granadine nationalism and irredentism. The PNG would become well known for its make up of the officer class, gaining it the nickname of the “Club de Oficiales” or “Officers Club”

The Granadine Nationalist Party and the Granadine Conservative Party would form the Movimiento Granada Unida (MGU) or United Granada Movement, an electoral alliance with General Di María as their candidate for the June 1938 election to ensure the defeat of the Granadine Liberal Party. By stoking the flames of a century of anti-Peruvian sentiment fresh in the minds of the populace following the Peruvian invasion of Leticia in 1932 and continued territorial disputes between the two countries the MGU would overshadow the GCP’s unpopular handling of the Peruvian invasion by accusing the GLP of cowardice and the willingness to allow Peru to get away with not just their past but their future provocations, emphasising the Liberal Party’s suggestion to repair relations with Peru instead of seeking retribution.

General Di María Ecuadorian heritage and promise to incorporate Peru’s Amazon territories into the state of Ecuador would sway the usually Liberal leaning state to his party’s favour. Swept in regional polling in even their most loyal departments and facing almost guaranteed defeat the Liberal party would not contest the election, calling for cancelling of the vote to save money however the MGU would object citing the rights of the independent parties to run and the right of the people to elect their officials.

As expected the MGU would win the election on the 1st of June with a supermajority without contest from the Liberal Party. On the morning of the 2nd, President elect Di María would comanche a victory lap from his hometown of San Pedro de Riobamba in the Ecuadorian Highlands through the tri-states to the Venezuelan state capital of Caracas. While incumbent Conservative Party leader Laureano Gómez would on paper be the president for his remaining three months he would be pressured by his colleagues to concede decision making to the Nacionalistas who had disproportionate political leverage and military backing, hoping to keep the MGU alliance together so as to not lose all power to their allies. During this period President Gómez would accept all demands from the Nationalistas, including the promotion of General Di María to “Generalísimo de las Granadinas”, the highest rank at the time amongst all three branches of the Granadine Armed Forces and the creation of the six star rank “Generalísimo y Comandante Supremo de las Fuerzas Armadas” to be bestowed upon Granada’s forefather Simón Bolívar.

On the 8th of September Generalissimo Di María would enter the Granadine capital of Santísima Trinidad, Bogotá prior to 1831, as part of a cavalcade of hundreds of horsemen, mostly military officers of all ranks, atop his sabino white Paso Fino mare “Venganza”. He would sport the traditional miliary uniform and a white WW1 era M16 stahlhelm with five 6 pointed pale blue stars on the front, the color scheme of the first and second national flags of Ecuador before it joined the union, adopting the colors and the flags as his personal standards to show his birth ties to the state. He would be inaugurated at the Plaza de Bolívar in front of the Primatial Cathedral of Santísima Trinidad by Archbishop Ismael Perdomo Borrero per his request. President Di María would choose the area to emphasise his platform of Catholic conservatism and cooperation with the Episcopal Conference of Granada, the supreme religious authority of the Granadines.

The People's Republic of Peking Zhongguo


    (Kuomintang) Republic of China / (國民黨)中華民國

    JAPAN’s UNJUST WAR OF AGGRESSION TURNS TOWARDS WARTIME CAPITAL
    日 本 不 義 的 侵 略 戰 爭 轉 向 中 國 的 戰 時 首 都

    September of 1938 | 1938 年 9 月 一 Early Autumn




      WUCHANG, HANKOU, AND HANYANG | 武昌、漢口、漢陽:

      Japan's plan to capture China's present wartime capital, Hankou, depends firstly on the strategic goal to block all communications to the city, situated on the low and flat terrain surrounding the confluence of the Han River and Yangtze Rivers. This would be followed by a slow-moving, heavy-firepower siege of the city, one of the “Three Towns of Wuhan”. As of the last week, Japanese forces pulled their nets around the de facto wartime capital and captured the strategically important Huangchwan region north of the Yangtze River. Another column captured one of a series of river barriers at Usue, a hundred miles downstream from Hankow. Meanwhile, Japanese pilots continued a bombing campaign of their primary target, the Canton-Hankou Railway.

      Since the start of the fourteenth month war, the front has been bombed at over thirteen-hundred locations. Prompt repairs have minimized service disruptions and trains have continued to run their routes, albeit irregularly, over the past week. An incredibly striking proof of China's wartime ingenuity is that of the six-hundred-eighty-mile run from Guangzhou to Hankou, which has been reduced from a forty-five hour route to merely thirty-six hours. Moreover, despite the war, the vast amounts of munitions transported have made the route profitable. Net revenue for the last fiscal year was $4,000,000.

      The Guangzhou-Hankou Railway is not only a major transportation route for munitions, but also an economic lifeline of China as a means for exporting tea. Only recently have Japanese troops approached tea plantations in China. Hankou has become the center of China's tea trade, and as railways have continued to operate despite the Japanese onslaught, Hong Kong has replaced Shanghai as China's primary tea-exporting port. Last year, China's tea exports increased by four-percent compared to 1936, reaching 406,572 cents (89,632,863 pounds) in excess of $30,000,000. Additionally this year, the Soviet Union signed a $15 million purchasing contract. Hunan and Hube's 975,000 pounds of brick tea have already been shipped from Hankou to Hong Kong this year, which is about half of last year's total inventory.

      Last week, China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek maintained his composure as foreign-language radio program “Voice of China” revealed his confidence in Chinese weapons. He further urged the Chinese Manchukuo to make the Japanese-controlled country a “Japanese graveyard”. Meanwhile in the Wuhan region, about forty-five-hundred junk, including sailboats, tugs and sampan carrying eighty-thousand tons of cargo and sixteen-thousand boatmen, each earning thirty cents a day, have been directed to complete a largescale evacuation of Wuhan's three cities, Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang, which now sit at the frontlines of Japan's appalling war on China.


The Federation of Malaysia of Maziya

October,1938
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FOOD SHORTAGE
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One thing which has been avoided to a massive degree in the nation is the increase of malnourished children after the events of the civil war.The civil war had devastated the farm lands and with some of the old farm lands being replaced with new residential zones meant that food was beginning to get low,this has gone on for too long and the number has increased drastically meant that the government had to finally step in.The original mindset was that eventually the farmers will get everything back to normal so there was so need to step in however although progress has been made it has been very minor progress,prime minister,Juaidi decided to get the parliament to handle the situation and if it continues even after the parliament intervention then he will begin making plans to get international help with the food problem.

The parliament held a meeting which lasted from morning to noon as all members had no idea on how to handle the food shortage without getting help from other countries then Fong Wei Yuan raised his hand and began to explain his idea.

    FONG WEI YUAN:What about we enlist the army to help the farmers in the planting and harvesting of crops.With the army being there that practically doubles the work force for farming which should in theory lead to more crops being produced and harvested at a faster rate.

With no other ideas coming in the entire parliament voted to agree with the plan and soon this plan was made public and small groups of soldiers were being sent to each farm to assist in the growing and harvesting of crops.

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West ser reasiala

hi

Menggu clique

October 1938

White mongolia artillery colonel wrote: -Faster! - I barked a command, watching my men reloading the field gun again. It was the 27th repetition of the same action during the last 30 minutes, but only the 5th I was OK with. - Faster, or you will perish in vain, grebanye monkeys.

Another shell landed within 20 meters radius of the target, accompanied by an ugly and sarcastic howl. 300 meters in front of the battery, machine guns started their song, spitting bullets like an insult to the potential enemy. That song was pretty familiar to everyone in the field, as the machinegun was definitely capable of throat singing his mantra - get off the field, bury yourself in the ground, hide, idiot-ta-ta-ta-ta. Officer's whistles got on the top of the cacophony, signaling the troops to put the gas masks on.

The field trembled with thousands of boots marching forward in straight lines into the greenish-yellow clouds of gas, dispersed by my crewmen and I saw a General Zhan on the top of his armored car, observing us from the distance. We did a good job today, may I tell you! I can swear I saw an explosion during the target practice, so I think we've finally got brand new explosives-filled targets.

||Army drills "The end of Bogd Khan"||

After the railroad construction was done and the Urga arsenal was expanded to streamline the production of the 88mm field cannons, Glorious Marshals ordered the troops to conduct a general military drill, involving both air and land units. 1st Mixed brigade, 2nd Guardian brigade as well as OMO (Osobiy Manchurskiy Otryad, Special Manchurian Unit) were leading the spearhead assault on the potential enemy during three weeks of drills while 3rd, 4th and 5th armies were practicing in deep defense. Aviation performance was found as not satisfying, while the land units proved themselves almost as hardy and capable, as they were before they had been transferred to the railroad building and factory duties. Glorious Marshals expressed hope that conducting such drills on the regular basis would allow White Mongolia to survive the darkest times to come.

Unfortunately, the armored train of Baron Ungern exploded. Did it happen due to being caught in the crossfire or was it an enemy diversion? All those responsible will be executed, the execution attendance is mandatory for the citizens of Urga unless they obtain special permission signed by province Magistrate.

The USSR of Alzarikstan

        GRANDE ESTADO NOVO
        
        A UNIÃO-ESTADO PLURICONTINENTAL DAS NAÇÕES PORTUGUESAS
        
        GLÓRIA A DEUS, GLÓRIA A SALAZAR, GLÓRIA A VARGAS

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      COUNCIL ON INDUSTRY & TECHNOLOGY AND COUNCIL ON CIVIC DEFENSE CONFIRMS ROCKETRY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT PROJECT LOCATIONS
      1ST GREATER ESTADO NOVO ADMINISTRATION | LISBON & RIO DE JANEIRO, OCTOBER 1938

    | Operação Enoque, Sindicato de Experimentação Teórica em Aplicação de Tecnologia de Foguetes, Rio de Janeiro e Lisboa, Grande Estado Novo - | Silently approved by both Vargas and Salazar, the Council on Industry & Technology and the Council on Civic Defense received approval to begin the research and development regarding rockets and liquid fuel propellant for both commercial and military purposes. Under the name "Operação Enoque", a new entity named the Sindicato de Experimentação Teórica em Aplicação de Tecnologia de Foguetes was formed as a liaison organization between the two main councils to enhance coordination and exchanging of knowledge and resources.

    As a classified project, the Grande Estado Novo did not want to commit its teaching in Europe as it would draw too much attention, especially from the Germans. Therefore, it was suggested that the administrative offices be located in Lisbon in addition to scientific research centers to be placed in Portugal while facilities and sites for testing will be located in Brazil, East Timor, and Portuguese Africa. Giving their blessings for the project, Salazar and Vargas emphasized the establishment of a dual usage technology regarding liquid fuel propellants and better understanding of rocketry technology. Labeled as highly crucial to the state of national security for the Grande Estado Novo, only a select individuals have been informed of the new endeavor.

    The areas approved for scientific research, development, and testing are as follows:

      Alcântara, Maranhão, Brazil
      Lubango, Angola
      Cuemba, Angola
      Tete, Mozambique
      Molumbo, Mozambique
      Ainaro, East Timor
      Mansaba, Guinea-Bissau
      Danto, Guinea-Bissau
      Arari, Brazil
      Castelo, Brazil
      Angra do Heroismo, Portugal
      Izeda, Portugal

    The new Syndicate would be comprised of military scientists, military officials, and elite National Union Party officials in addition to intellectuals and industrialists with a background in physics, aerodynamics, propulsion, chemistry, structures, and navigation/guidance/control. Individuals approved to work on the project would undergo extensive background investigations and evaluations of political alignment to ensure reduction of potential sabotage, espionage, and leaking to the public the new project. |

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        UNION-STATE OF PORTUGUESE NATIONS!
        
        GLORY TO GOD!
        
        THE BASTION OF CATHOLICISM!

The Chinese Peoples Republic of OsivoII

| OCTOBER - 1938|

        USSR ★ UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS 
        Союз Советских Социалистических Республик CCCP  |

KOSYGIN VOTED INTO AS FIRST SECRETARY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF NOVOROSSIYA
КОСЫГИН БЫЛ ИЗБРАН ПЕРВЫМ СЕКРЕТАРЕМ КОММУНИСТИЧЕСКОЙ ПАРТИИ НОВОРОССИИ

По мере того как Хрущев руководил Малороссийской ССР, Алексей Косыгин, пробиравшийся вверх по ступеням Ленинградского Совета и советской иерархии, занял хорошее положение у товарища Сталина и постоянно стремился к все более и более высоким должностям в советском правительстве.  Это завершилось бы выборами, чтобы поставить его на должность первого секретаря Коммунистической партии Новороссии.  Косыгин продолжит советизацию культуры в Новороссии, продвигая русский язык как общий язык и продвигая единую всеобъемлющую советскую культуру.  Высокая плотность промышленности в Новороссии укрепит позиции Косыгина в советском правительстве, что приведет к соперничеству между Косыгиным и Хрущевым, при этом Косыгин получит похвалу от Политбюро за его успехи в советизации культуры в Новороссии по сравнению с прогрессом Хрущева в этом вопросе.  Алексей также будет введен в качестве действительного члена Политбюро по приказу товарища Сталина.

As Khrushchev lead the Malorussian SSR, Alexei Kosygin who has been working his way up through the Leningrad Soviet and through the Soviet Hierarchy would come into a good position with comrade Stalin and would continually seek higher and higher positions in Soviet Government. This would culminate in the election to put him into the position of First Secretary of The Communist Party of Novorossiya. Kosygin would continue the progress of Sovietization of the culture in Novorossiya promoting Russian language as a common language and the promotion of a singular encompassing Soviet culture. The high density of industry in Novorossiya would boost Kosygin’s position in the Soviet government leading to a rivalry between Kosygin and Khrushchev with Kosygin gaining praise by the Politburo for his success in the Sovietization of culture in Novorossiya over Khrushchev’s progress in this matter. Alexei would also be brought in as a full member of the Politburo under orders from Comrade Stalin.

Finlandee

    June 12, 1937

    Finland accelerates militarization and further improving the Defense Line after the Soviet Invasion of Turkey.

For years, after gaining independence, Finland has been carefully shaping itself into a living fortress with increase militarization due to being next to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). With the Invasion of Turkey by the Soviet in attempt to overthrow the Turkish Government, HM King Väinö I and the recently new centre-left government decided to accelerate the already militarization of the nation and the Finnish parliament hastily approved emergency funding for an immense overhaul and extension of the line. This defense line is the "Mannerheim Line" which was stretch through Karelia, built of a combination of volunteer and paid labor and comprising flexible, natural defenses. It had been under construction since the early 1920s: over a hundred small bunkers had already been strategically placed and camouflaged along the Soviet border. Now with the threat of Soviet aggression becoming more real than ever, with the weather conditions being favorable and with Parliament approval for defense spending, the defense of the Mannerheim Line will be improve by having old bunkers to be expanded, renovated, and fortified; the command post system among the line was to be reformed; huge lines of dragon's teeth were to be embedded in the earth; communities would form task forces to create simple, natural barriers like fallen trees and stones using an official guidebook issued by Finland's Defense Council; Finnish hunting clubs were to train in human-centric marksmanship; decoy trees were to be readied for hanging over strategic roads through the forest to obscure sighting by enemy watchtowers and planes; and trenches and barbed wire were to form more chronic problems for Soviet tanks. General Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, the hero of the Finnish Civil War, will be in charge of this project.

Finland has been increasing its diplomatic ties with other nations in Europe, gaining allies, increasing friendships with other nations and even begin making arms deals with different nations to improve its military. Despite the immense strengthening from Finns and their international allies, the old line was to have one firm commonality with the expanding one: flexible defense was the absolute priority. Larger, static bunkers, such as those found on the Maginot Line, were susceptible to sappers, difficult to camouflage and harder to fund—they also provided obvious strategic targets. The Mannerheim Line, in contrast, was to remain always covert, always in small but overwhelming increments, and absolutely impregnable by organized attacks by vehicles. Finnish volunteers would eventually turn out in the tens of thousands alongside their foreign allies to help put these fortifications in place, with the Illegal Communist Party members prohibited from participation to prevent any leak in intelligence. Mannerheim himself would visit the construction areas, laying barbed wire and digging trenches, placing dragon's teeth, speaking with volunteers, rallying the locals and checking on supply chains. In addition to widespread anti-air and anti-sea artillery, a new "Salpa Line"—his next great project, which would span from Karelia to Petsamo—was rumored in abundance, much to the reassurance of the Finnish populace. The specialized taxes levied on businesses and citizens to fund the line in addition to the plentiful donations from Finland and abroad were to draw almost no complaints: Finland had fully determined that it would not be the next country to fall to foreign aggression.

Grand cooping

I have new flag

The United States of Forzah

Grand cooping wrote:I have new flag

I can see that

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Philanialle

      OCTOBER 1938
      TOKYO, JAPAN — EAST ASIA

        在米日本大使の任命!

        APPOINTMENT OF AMBASSADOR OF JAPAN TO THE U.S.!

    | Japan’s Ambassador to the US, Mr. Hiroshi Saito, 51, a grumpy middle-aged man who has an endearing way of pleasing American correspondents, where he spends his time playing poker with White House Secretary Marvin McIntyre and takes pride in his American slang. Saito approves of a Japanese-controlled China, but is not in favor of the methods the army has been using to achieve this goal. Its difficult task since the beginning of the war in China was precisely to reach an agreement between the Japanese Empire and the U.S. sympathetic to China. These duties, such as formal apologies and appearances, left Ambassador Saito so tired that even his weight dropped by 92 lbs., and four months ago he was forced to take long days off in Hot Springs, Virginia. Upon returning to Washington, Ambassador Saito was notified by his wife of an urgent telegram from Tokyo. Premier Konoye, totally desperate to find a new Foreign Minister like General Kazushige Ugaki, resigned two weeks ago. Hiroshi Saito was invited to take the post. General Ugaki. long on the outs with a group of military men determined to add all China to Japan’s control, re-signed when complete charge of the China policy was taken from his office, put in the hands of an army-sponsored China Control Board. Ambassador Saito, considered a liberal man, politely declined for health reasons. Premier Konoye, extremely furious, took Saito's word for it, saying, “If you're too sick for the Foreign Ministry, you’re certainly too sick to stay in Washington, then go back to Tokyo.” |

    | The Premier then decided to assume the post of Foreign Minister and appointed the new Ambassador to the U.S. and his Vice Minister, Kensuke Horinouchi, 52, a diplomat with 27 years of experience. Not a complete stranger to America, Horinouchi served as counselor to the embassy in Washington in 1930 and as consul general in New York (1931-1934). |

    | The great duty of an Ambassador of Japan is to assuage incidents considered trivial that could damage relations with a nation that is on the other side of the Pacific. Before traveling to the U.S., the new ambassador came across this last week. Some feminists delegates from the International Women’s League in Tokyo protested and denounced to the police authorities when they were notified that 30 women who had come from Hollywood to play softball in Japan were walking around the fields in tight shorts. Police have decreed that the shorts must be long enough to reach the knee. Japan and America strayed when it came to tradition compared to modernistic values. A symbol of the growing divide between the Samurai and the Eagle! |

The Empire of Annyeong Korea

      NOVEMBER 1938
      HANSEONG, JOSEON — EAST ASIA

        정치 무대의 황제

        EMPEROR ON THE POLITICAL STAGE

    | His Majesty the Emperor Jeong, a young monarch who turned 26, spent hours in his private office last week. Tokyo demanded that His Majesty take a stand on terrorism issues. The Emperor held a scroll in his hands and presented a rather radical decree. Being a decree of the monarch, the Imperial seal was then used to officiate a change to reform all military and police institutions on the peninsula. Although the Emperor addressed this to the councilors, ministers and the Premier present at the audience, he really did not need to do so as this is an Imperial decree, His Majesty only presented his decree. This decree was so difficult to write that the Emperor spent about 3 days straight in the palace library, not even the Imperial Family could bother him, only the court ladies could enter and the Emperor’s guards stayed at the door. |

        i) 군사 기관은 이제 일본인 요원만 모집해야 합니다.

        ii) 어린이와 청소년을 위한 학교는 매일 순찰하는 군인들과 함께 고도로 군사화될 것입니다.

        iii) 법 집행 기관은 보안 서비스를 수행하기 위해 민간인이 아닌 군인만 고용해야 합니다.

        iv) 테러리스트의 위치를 ​​쉽게 파악하기 위해 비밀 경찰이 만들어집니다.

        i) Military institutions will now be required to hire only Japanese personnel.
        
        ii) Schools for children and youth will be highly militarized with soldiers on daily patrol.
        
        iii) Law enforcement institutions must only employ military personnel, not civilians, to carry out security services.
        
        iv) Secret police are created to easily locate terrorists.

    | For the Japanese Empire, the young monarch is more than capable of taking over some important matters, after the failure of Former Premier Choi, who was considered a dictator. During these 6 years of the 1st reign, Yi U was benevolent, strong and neutral in decision making, as well as being promoted to captain in the Japanese army on 1st March 1938. |

The Commonwealth of Nonador

      UMHLABA WABANTU | IN ZULU

      DIE BANTOEWERELD | IN AFRIKAANS

      ILIZWE LABANTU | IN XHOSA

      THE BANTU WORLD | IN ENGLISH

       
      November Edition — 1938

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    Diversity in thought and view Strengthens the People
    Dependable Source of News and Current Events from Across the Dominion

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      VACANCY IN PARLIAMENT LEADS TO FIRST NATIVE SOUTH AFRICAN IN THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY;
       

    | CAPE TOWN — Just over a month ago, the nation mourned the death of long-time member of the Assembly and pro-integration politician, Wilkus Le Roux. Since 1911, Mister Le Roux was an outspoken member, whose loud bellicose voice could be heard in heated exchange with right-wingers; especially on topics of race and labor rights. On most issues, he stood on the right side of history, supporting legislation which opened the door for Unionization for mine workers, helped repeal the ban on interracial labor organizing, and resisted efforts to see the ‘Cape Franchise’ isolated and eroded. Such was the cause of near universal praise for the elder statesman, whose death of old age presented to Union Party officials an opportunity to encapsulate his legacy.

    Passage of the 1937 Peerage Act presented a Constitutional change to the national government of South Africa. Strengthened by the Dominion’s position as a “Kingdom in her own right”, the Act set the foundation for a systematic reorganization of Parliament, which will soon see the Senate conclude its final session next fall, and a new ‘House of Lords’ take it’s place in January of 1940. Even with the recent publishing of letters of patent for South Africa’s growing “first citizenry”, the major change in pace in the Pro-Union v Republican debate paled in comparison to the final provisions of the Act. In 1909, non-Europeans (especially natives) were prohibited from sitting in the Parliament of South Africa by Westminster. In 1937, however, that prohibition was lifted through the designation of new “Integrated Clans”, and extension of citizenship to their inhabitants. In the course of one year, the number of native citizens rose from just 321,000 to nearly 1 Million — mostly of the Xhosa and Zulu peoples in eastern South Africa. For the Union Party, the political implications alluded to an immediate boost in electoral support for Prime Minister Smut’s Party. Yet, in the same breath, the UP was slow to see natives join their number in Parliament.

    Despite intense outrage from the National Party and it’s base of support, who viewed the efforts of the UP as ”handing our destiny over to savages”, the vacancy presented by Mr. Le Roux’s death afforded to Prime Minister Smuts an opportunity to remedy this situation.

    While there are many leaders in native communities, especially those trained in the western tradition, none other compared to the first licensed native doctor in British Southern Africa — Dr. A.B. Xuma. A well known activist for native rights throughout South Africa, and member of the moderate pro-integration African National Congress (ANC), Dr. Xuma was hailed as the embodiment of the modern native South African. Educated at the Northwestern University in Chicago, USA and the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland. Opening up a medical practice in his place of birth, Sophiatown for native South Africans who faced discrimination there in 1928. In the decade since returning to South Africa, Dr. Xuma rejoined the fledgling ANC and worked to reinvigorate the Party whose support had been waining by that point. Taking part in and testifying before various national Boards and Commissions such as the Native Economic Commission, Liquor Commission, and Commission on African Education — Xuma gained respect of whites and native South Africans alike, as a voice of reason in rooms oft crowded by more radical African Nationalist elements.Thus, the invitation to sit in Parliement received from the Prime Minister was not a shock to most, but an inevitable outcome of a career of public service for even the “least of these”.

    In an agreement with Union Party Officials, Dr. Xuma was given the ability to sit in Parliament not as a member of the UP, but as a member of his party — the African National Congress. Through such an agreement, Dr. Xuma will be in a coalition with the UP, in support of their majority, while likewise being able to represent the interest of his constituents and native South Africans at-large. Today marks the beginning of a new era in South Africa.

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The United People of Zaire of Paseo

| BANZA MANSION |

3rd of November, 1938
Leopoldville, Congo

| The maids would be rushing about, finishing packing the suitcases of Gloria Banza. We would see the large mansion, that was still having work done to it. The past year has been extremely lucrative to the Banza's, due to their new positions and achievements. Beautifully decorated, and filled with warmth, the Banza Mansion was growing alongside its residents who have by now become active and powerful members of the new Congolese elite, an elite that is growing in rapid speed. With maids rushing about, a commotion all around, Gloria would find herself isolated amidst all this. The idea to go on a tour was that of her husband and the Queen. Her press in Belgium has grown very well, and both Pascal and the Queen viewed Gloria as a chance to gain even larger press internationally.

Standing in the large, almost ceremonial grand entrance of the mansion, Gloria would look at the maids with a slight confused smile. Only a year prior, she was the maid. Wearing a white long dress, with white high heels, her hair beautifully done up, and a white large hat in her hand, Gloria would sigh slightly as suddenly Pascal would appear. Embracing her for a moment, he would give her a kiss. Being twenty-three years old than her, the couple had their generational differences, but nonetheless the affection was still there. |

    [ Pascal ]: "You will be great. I have no doubt."

    [ Gloria ]: "I do, Pascal. You're sending me out to a land that looks upon the likes of us from above."

| Pascal would look at her for a moment, before dismissing the maids around and taking a seat with her on the large staircase. |

    [ Pascal ]: "Darling, we cannot look back now. We cannot afford to look back, to look upon our pride. We have been given the cards that we have, and we need to play them. They liked you in Belgium. They will like you elsewhere."

    [ Gloria ]: "I was a sensation to them. An exotic Princess, is how they referred to me as. They've never seen a black woman up-close, so it was just a sensation."

    [ Pascal ]: "And that's all I want from you during this tour. Be that sensation. Show them your charm, your beauty, intelligence, class."

| Gloria would look at him doubtfully before looking down. |

    [ Pascal ]: "You're not just representing the people of Congo, Gloria. You're representing the people of Africa. The continent of Africa. The idea of Africa. By God, may they see you and understand that we are just like them...that is your biggest mission, Gloria. Damn be the culture of their lands, when you're being the idea of Africa, of the people of Africa that they couldn't comprehend before. I believe in you, Gloria."

| Gloria would look up at him for a moment. She would slowly smile, before kissing him on the lips. Suddenly, the driver would come in. |

    [ Driver ]: "Mrs Banza, the vehicle is ready."

| Nodding she would get up, followed by Pascal. Looking at him one more time, she would smile slightly before placing her hat on her head. Taking her handbag, she would breath deeply before walking off with the servants carrying the bags behind her. Pascal would smile proudly, as she walked off. |

CUT TO

| QUEEN DOWAGER YACHT |

The Atlantic Ocean
6th of November, 1938

| Sitting in her luxurious cabin, Gloria would be reading through the newspapers. Newspapers that came from France, Britain, Estado Novo, United States and Belgium. She wanted to know exactly what is happening in Europe right now. She wanted to know everything. For the past two days, she has been studying extensively on the countries she is bound to visit. The last thing she would want, is to make a fool out of herself. During this period, she is also keeping up her diary. She only has a day or two left of her journey, till she reaches her first destination. LISBON. As she places her newspaper down, two knocks would come through before a figure appeared in the doorway.

Standing tall and pale, with a long green dress, it was Christina De Mutte. Christina is a forty-two year old etiquette and French teacher, who during her life in Belgium was a lady-in-waiting to the Queen Dowager. Now, she has become Gloria's personal advisor on this tour. Gloria looking at her, would glimpse a smile that was not returned. Christina would close the door carefully before standing by Gloria.

    [ Christina ]: "Mrs Banza. I am Christina De Mutte. Your advisor during this tour. The Queen Dowager has personally asked me to aid you, in preparation and in during of this crucial tour."

    [ Gloria ]: "Aw, well, thank you. Mrs De Mutte. I am rather nervous."

    [ Christina ]: "As you should be. You're the first black...you're the first woman of Congo to tour Europe. It is an honour."

    [ Gloria ]: "Without a doubt, it is."

    [ Christina ]: "I'm glad we're on the same page about that."

| Christina would look at Gloria coldly, before passing her a document. |

    [ Christina ]: "I have taken the liberty of making a list of each person that you shall meet with in Lisbon. Their personality traits, their likes and dislikes, careers and professions."

| Gloria would start looking through it, as Christina would slightly sigh. |

    [ Christina ]: "We shall be in each place for a maximum of two days. Lisbon is first, followed by London, Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw and then Brussels. After that, we take off for New York City. Is that understood?"

| Gloria would nod slowly. Just before Christina was about to leave, Gloria would speak up. |

    [ Gloria ]: "Tell me, Mrs De Mutte. Is it true? What they write in the press?"

    [ Christina ]: "About?"

    [ Gloria ]: "The Volkists...the fascists..."

    [ Christina ]: "What are you asking me, Mrs Banza?"

| Gloria would look at her, with a serious note on her face. Her body slightly tensed. |

    [ Gloria ]: "What I am asking is...am I in danger?"

| Christina would look at her for a moment before raising her head slightly. |

    [ Christina ]: "Mrs Banza. I believe that the whole of Europe is in danger, not just you. And what the press are saying about the Volkists is nothing compared to that to what my relatives in Germany are saying. I believe that in that regard, you and Europe have much in common."

| Looking coldly at Gloria, Christina would leave. Gloria would breathe heavily as she looked out of her cabin window. She knew that she was only a day away from the mainland Europe, and that soon enough she will experience Europe as it truly might be. But determination was set in her eyes. With words of Pascal in her mind, she really believes that she is representing the whole of Africa through this tour, and that the image of Congo, the image of Africa for years to come is resting on her shoulders. |

Russian kongo

    LA NACION
     
    NOVEMBER EDITION —  1938

      Un mundo de noticias en pocas palabras!
      A world of news in few words!

      COUP D’ÉTAT IN BUENOS AIRES

    | BUENOS AIRES — Argentina continues reeling from a violent military uprising in Buenos Aires on October 3rd, in which national-syndicalist officers led by Major General Pedro Ramirez Menchaca took control of the Casa Rosada and Ministries of Defence, Economy, and Justice. President Agustin Justo Rolón resigned shortly after Argentine Army officers stormed the presidential palace at dawn, facing little resistance from dissident Navy officers and support from the Air Force. Ramirez swore himself in as President of Argentina later that same day, subsequently suspending the Argentine Constitution of 1898 and the National Congress. Later decreeing martial law via radio broadcast, Ramirez has expressed open Integralist, Fascist, and National-Syndicalist sympathies. Calling his government an "Interim Junta", Ramirez has blamed the state of Argentina’s economy and political corruption on bourgeois reactionaries, communist and anarchist agitators, liberal atheists, and the failure of the Argentine Constitution. He has openly stated inspiration from of the German State, Kingdom of Italy, Estado Novo, and the recent election of Catholic reactionaries in Granada.

    Curfews have been imposed between 9pm and 7am with exceptions for workers who may obtain police permits. The nation’s universities will be closed for a period of four weeks, while the military government sorts through suspected left-wing radicals and so-called “dissident agitational propaganda” in the form of books and periodicals kept on campus. Hundreds of activists, intellectuals, politicians, and other agitators have been jailed indefinitely. The Interim Junta states that these measures are part of a National Reorganisation Process, which will see Argentina organised along nationalist, syndicalist, and traditionalist lines. A new constitution is due to be promulgated in exactly one-year, at which point the current state of emergency will be suspended. Ramirez has promised to conquer poverty, expand industry, and return Buenos Aires to its global prominence in trade and prosperity. The Interim Junta has reached out to the governments of the United States, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Finland, United Kingdom, Spain, Estado Novo, Germany, and Italy in pursuit of opening freer trade arrangements, expanding mutual investment, and maintaining an favourable migratory policy for skilled labor. The incoming military government has embraced a pro-labour but anti-communist stance, with Labor and Welfare Minister Lt. Gen. Juan Peron promising to increase wages, unionise every industry, establish national health and education programs, and provide state-subsidised vacation vouchers to Argentine workers. Simultaneously, the military government has provided special tax exemptions for foreign investors establish new factories with government-affiliated union workers.

    Aiming to make use of the fertile lands in the Argentine Pampas region, and in the face of mass bankruptcy of small-scale farmers, the Interim Junta has begun acquiring tracts of land from bankrupt farmers to establish industrial farms in combination with foreign and domestic capital. The regime has announced a departure from the import substitution developmental policy of President Rolón’s Presidency, opting for an export-based developmental policy. The regime will target agricultural, mining, and consumer manufacturing exports, utilising Argentina’s fertile lands, plentiful natural resources, and skilled workforce to its best ability. The central bank will come under the strict control of the military government, who have openly expressed a desire to pursue a low-interest and liberal monetary regime to incentivise spending. In a stark departure from prior policy, many hope that this new regime will be able to tackle the economic challenges felt since the 1929 Market Crash. |

The Federation of Malaysia of Maziya

December,1938
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FOOD SHORTAGE NOT GOING AWAY
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It has been a couple of months since the plan for the army to send a small group of soldiers into every farm has been made and the progress looked like it was improving during October but it slowly started stagnating during the middle of November with it now completely stagnated and people still suffering from lack of food.The parliament came up with another idea and that was to encourage the farmers to double the production of agricultural gains through subsidisation.However prime minister,Juaidi has begun making plans to talk to some countries if they will be interested in sending foreign aid to the country,but the parliament is still going ahead with their plan with the idea by paying the farmers 2% more then their usual fee they gain from selling food in markets based of financial reports from markets in exchange for doubling their work load to increase food production.

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Rutannia, Nosautempopulus, Cascadla, Metropolitan Francais, and 5 othersPuerto Somoza, New Provenance, Russian kongo, Annyeong Korea, and Menggu clique

The Junta de los Catorce of Puerto Somoza

UNIONS, LEAGUES, AND AGITATORS!

1931-1938 | Freetown, Western Area, British Sierra Leone

Some seven years after the attempted jihad of Haidara Kontorfili, the event that sent shockwaves throughout the colony and the protectorate beyond, Sierra Leone was slowly changing. Riots spurred in the Southern Provincial capital of Pujehun shortly after the death Kontorfili exacerbated the situation that Spring 1931, with local government dispatching several Constables of the Sierra Leone Frontier Police to quell the matter. Colonial era homes were burnt to the ground by unchecked dissidents as Frontier Police fought to control both fires and pockets of rioters. Deadly force had not been authorized against the rioters at Pujehun, which soon became a community effort to fight the growing blaze engulfing parts of the rural city and threatening the countryside beyond.

In 1934, just three years later, another riot strikes the city of Kenema in the bordering Eastern Province. This one, however, vastly more organized than as witnessed in Pujehun formed from outrage and unorganized anarchy. Workers gathered in strike of their labor conditions in the local diamond mines that drove much of the province's economy, many of them, overwhelmingly, with wage grievances. The Sierra Leone Frontier Forces stationed there did well to route the dissenters, harshly lashing their countrymen with hunting crops. This incident, among countless others, giving way for the inception of the West African Youth League by Isaac Theophilus Akunna Wallace-Johnson, an editor of the Negro Worker who attended the International Labor Defence Conference in Moscow and thereafter remained to pursue studies at the People's University of the East.

By June 1936, Wallace-Johnson was arrested and tried before an Assize Court in London to appeal a sedition case. Convicted by early the next month and fined £50 by the court, the trial inadvertently flustered publicity for the WAYL with over a thousand new memberships pouring in from across the globe. Having already established just under 20 West African Youth League branches throughout the British Gold Coast, he aspired toward his eventual return to Sierra Leone backed by this vehicle of reform, though lacked the necessary funds for travel. Spending the next two years lobbying on behalf of the struggles of West African peoples and bringing awareness to the British general public, I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson finally made his envisioned return to Sierra Leone as the situation became increasingly disparate in London, reaching Freetown Harbor in April 1938.

Upon return, Wallace-Johnson attempted to establish his name in Sierra Leone's political scene, though was only met with scorn, viewed as an outsider by the established Krio political elite in the colony. Perhaps the large opposition newspapers and their editors praised his work in Accra, but in Freetowon, he had nothing and no name, little more than an outcast claiming titulary within the high echelons, though truly had no place in Sierra Leonean politics. Despite these rocky beginnings, including the confiscation of some 2,000 copies of The African Sentinel by colonial customs officials upon arrival, Wallace-Johnson formed Sierra Leone's first WAYL branch, and the League soon became a widespread success, organizing local town meetings, founding The African Standard newspaper, founded eight unions, and even contested local elections. The League branch in Freetown held it's meetings at the Wilberforce Memorial Hall, adjacent to the Frontier Police Headquarters as both sit upon the grounds encompassed in general as the Wilberforce Military Barracks. Bi-weekly meetings fueled by Wallace-Johnson's eccentric oratory drew in crowds from varying parts of the Colony and even as far out as the Protectorate, booking long train rides in from the interior.

The League's platform embodied, overall, the unity and equality of all peoples and tribes, improving women's rights, and promotion of cooperation between the Colony and the Protectorate, respectively. These stances proved widely popular among the disenfranchised, so much so that the League claimed as many as 25,000 members in the Colony, considered to be Freetown and the surrounding coastal areas, alongside some 17,000 in the Protectorate, perceived as the rest of Sierra Leone, otherwise referred to as the "interior". Once considered a complete stranger to the political atmosphere of Sierra Leone, I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson was rapidly became a face of fresh, proactive leadership and a people's champion, publicly declaring his equity with working-class Creoles. While the lowly supported his efforts and launched him into political relevance, he publicly chastised not only the upper class Creole elites, but even politicians within the Colonial Government without reprise, utilizing his ties within Parliament to give himself credence, yet immunity when publishing lengthy harangues in the African Standard against colonial officials whom most average Sierra Leoneans regarded with fear.

With this perceived immunity, the WAYL became involved with local elections. Four candidates representing the League were successfully elected to office, despite suffrage reserved only for the upper class Creole elite and their families. Standing proudly among them, Constance Cummings-John the first woman elected to public office in British West Africa, doing well to show the strides being made by the League. The electoral results left the colonial authorities scathing, and it wouldn't be long until the Governor's office was scrambling for reasons to yet again arrest Isaac Theophilus Akunna Wallace-Johnson.

Nosautempopulus

The New Delhi Tribune/नई दिल्ली ट्रिब्यून December 1938

Volume 14, Issue 1 /खंड 13, अंक 1

Mahatma Gandhi Addresses Crowds In New Delhi After Being Missing For Weeks! Announces Bombay Trip!

In what has been an eventful year in politics for Congress here in New Delhi, India. The National Congress had approved and enacted four major pieces of legislation that would according to proponents of the bill would greatly benefit Indians and other groups across the Indian subcontienent. Bills which were approved such as the "Good Conduct Prisoners' Probational Release Act." Which provide for the release of good conduct prisoners on conditions imposed by the State Government. The "Insurance Act of 1938," which aimed to regulate the insurance sector. It provided the broad legal framework within which the industry operates. Including the passing of the Maneuvers, Field Firing and Artillery Practice Act and the Cutchi Memons Act. All of which had gotten the attention of many civil rights and reform leaders, including Mahatma Gandhi.

Mahatma Gandhi who according to close friends and associates had confirmed that civil rights leader Gandhi was recovering from a recent event that involved 6 days of fasting, all of which included the participation of tens of thousands of people. Had arrived with a crowd of over one hundred thousand people outside of the National Congress building in New Delhi. Addressing the crowds after the morning prayers had finished up.

The civil rights leader today had detailed a series of events that will transpire within the following year, with demands being listed with according to many include the autocracy, in which Gandhi has planned on protesting in Bombay as early as March or April of the following year. In has shocked many in the crowds, Gandhi who had admitted during his speech that despite his initial publishing and remarks in regards to the Caste system in the past. Gandhi in a speech to hundreds of thousands of people regarding the Caste system, with origins dating back over two thousand years of Indian history has formally criticized its standing legitimacy, including the legitimacy of the British autocracy on the Indian subcontinent.

Gandhi saying in his speech; the caste system provides equality and rationality providing "ideal nationhood”, inherited personal qualities and needs for moral purification...however for any moral values to be protected, will require the absolute will of the people. This can only happen with India further adopting democracy and democratic ideals, as based on political representation, citizenship and human rights. The Caste system though it has brought many great kingdoms for thousands of years, a new system based on the equal protection and power for the people and those that they represent will further carry the people in a new chapter of the future of freedom from the chains of autocratic supremacy among the Indian subcontinent.

The speech drawing mixed opinions with many supporting his move to cast aside his support for the caste system, with other criticizing his new stance on the caste system. Mahatma Gandhi has added further plans on meeting with civil rights leaders across the Raj for his planned major demonstration in Bombay, with additional protest being planned in later dates.

The Federation of Malaysia of Maziya

January,1939
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BRITISH AID
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Prime minister,Juaidi Asyrafil ventured to the United Kingdom on the 12th of December 1938 to hold talks with Neville Chamberlain the prime minister of the United Kingdom about if the UK would be willing to provide foreign aid in food to the nation of Maziya.After weeks of negotiations,Juaidi Asyrafil and Neville Chamberlain agreed on a deal which results in Maziya being given food but only from the nearby colony which include Sarawak and British Malaya however British Malaya isn't a confirmed part of the foreign aid deal.

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Menggu clique

January 1939

Monthly journal "Military affairs"

After the death of Baron Ungern, Glorious Generals decided that this act of Japanese aggression couldn't be tolerated. Since the troops were already mobilized for the drill, Generals agreed that momentum should be used to attack the flank of the Japanese Imperial army. The bulk of the 800.000 boots already crossed the border to the Japanese-occupied Chinese provinces and engaged enemy in a series of skirmishes, although a general battle is yet to happen. Heavy usage of the chemical weapon already proved to be an advantage for the White Mongolia army, but the effectiveness of plague-infected insects in cluster bombs is not clear yet. Japanese army proved to be a harder enemy than initially supposed and its air superiority lead to total destruction of the aero fleet built during Ten Years Plan. The First Ambassador to the Republic of China was shot while moving by plane over the Japanese positions, so the latest directives are not available to the embassy. Our nation was happy to follow the call of the Chiang Kai-shek to make a region "Japanese graveyard", but with a current balance of power ensuring coordination with the southern front remains the highest priority for Glorious Generals. General Feng already issued an open letter in which he urges Chiang to unite efforts to overcome Japanese invaders in exchange for the amnesty and posts for him and Zuoling. Chiang answer is expected with a sense of hope here in Urga. Death to Japan! Death to traitors! No mercy!

Rutannia, Nosautempopulus, Cascadla, Metropolitan Francais, and 5 othersNew Provenance, Russian kongo, Maziya, Annyeong Korea, and La granadinas

The Global Empire of Syrasia

| LA VERDAD DE MEXICO |
| JANUARY 1939 - VOLUME 1, ISSUE I |
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| CELEBRATING A YEAR OF MEXICAN OIL NATIONALISATION

    In one of the most progressive and liberating times in Mexican history since the Mexican Revolution and the coming of peace in 1920, President Cárdenas visited various oil extraction sites along the Caribbean coast of Mexico. Since the various strikes and industrial disputes that plagued the nation in the turn of the new decade, Cárdenas and the Partido Nacional Revolucionario have made scores of nationalisation acquisitions across many industries, such as agriculture, manufacturing and rail services, but the most notable and most beloved by all Mexicans was the nationalisation of Mexican oil in March 1938.

    Forever opposing the excesses of industrial capitalism, Cárdenas and the PNR have never stopped in their efforts to create a free and fair homeland for all.

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