congyoglas@aol.com (CongYoGlas) wrote: >Joseph A. Admire wrote: >:>:>:>... going to the French colony of Greater Algeria to stir up the >:>:>:>native Arab/Berber population. In the 99 years since the initial French >:>:>:>conquest of Algeria-Tunisia, massive French, Italian, and Spanish >:>:>:>immigration had reduced the Muslim proportion of the Greater >:>:>:>Algerian population from 95% (of four million) to 25% (of 20 million). >:>:>:>Despite their minoritization, the Arabs in Greater Algeria retained >:>:>:>desires for independence. Colonel Ishii saw no reason why the French >:>:>:>shouldn't be occupied by a nasty uprising in their own backyard. >:>:>:> >:>:>:>While this was going on, Byzantium was feeling isolated. And with >:>:>:>>good reason -- it was the only ally of Japan, Siberia, and Vichy >:>:>:>France in all of Europe. As Italian, German, Magyar, and Russian armies >:>:>:>began to mass on its northern border, and as the French and United >:>:>:>States fleets took up positions just outside Byzantine territorial >:>:>:>waters off of Calabria, Byzantine liberals desperately redoubled their >:>:>:>efforts to get Byzantium to withdraw from its Japanese alliance. >:>:>:>Byzantium had, at the time, the world's sixth-largest economy and the >:>:>:>fourth-largest military, and possessed a vast colonial empire >:>:>:>stretching south from Armenia through Anatolian Turkey, Mesopotamia, >:>:>:>Palestine down to Eritrea and Oman. The Byzantines were very reluctant >:>:>:>to lose it all. >:>:> >:>:>:>Perhaps fortunately, the... >:>:> >:>:>:...world learned of the death of the Emperor of the Byzantines and >:>:>:Princeps of the Roman commonwealth, Heraclius X (r. 1891-1928) in late >:>:>:1927 (of natural causes). A military hero against the Russians, >:>:>:Heraclius was the strongest politician in the anti NATO pact. He was >:>:>:married to a Hapsburg, and a staunch enemy of the German Republic. A >:>:>:Byzantine Emperor ascends the throne after his election by the Senate >:>:>:(in the name of the Roman people) and the assent of the army. >:>:>:>Tradition stated that this election was symbolic, but at this time >:>:>:there were two claimants to the throne, the two sons of Heraclius, >:>:>:Theodore and Constantine. Theodore was the eldest, but faced stiff >:>:>:opposition in the Liberal dominated Senate because of his intention of >:>:>:continuing his father's policy. The army as well, resenting the >:>:>:Japanese/Tsarist Red Army force near Constantinople, still deserved the >:>:>:pro-US reputation that it has had since the refounding of the Empire. >:>:>:Constantine, however has been public in his statements against the >:>:>:Japanese alliance (his words being so critical that if he was not a >:>:>:Byzantine prince, he would have tossed into jail). However, Theodore >:>:>:would have been elected if Constantine had not been the target of an >:>:>:assassination plot that was traced back to agents of Col. Ishii. >:>:>:Constantine barely survives (the case that had the bomb under where he >:>:>:sat in his meeting room was kicked by one of his aids. Seeing the >:>:>:writing on the wall, Theodore (who was not a part of the plot, evidence >:>:>:later confirmed) attempts to flee to the Japanese garrison on the Asian >:>:>:side of the Hellespoint, but is accidentally shot by a sentry. Prince >:>:>:Constantine personally leads the Varangian Guard against the Japanese, >:>:>:and smashes it. On Jan 15, 1928, Constantine XIII is crowned in Hagia >:>:>:Sophia. The new Emperor grants citizenship to all subjects in the >:>:>:Empire, and cuts the Religious tax an old Muslim trick, religious >:>:>:tolerance in exchange for revenue) by 10%. He also informs the Senate >:>:>:that it is his intention to join the Baltimore Axis (commonly called >:>:>:NATO). The Japanese react to this by... >:>:> >:>:>...modifying their plans so as to raise Muslim rebellions against the >:>:>French *and* the Byzantines. They aren't any too successful with the >:>:>Islamic population of the Empire, although a low-level terrorist campaign >:>:>does begin in Palestine and the Levant, directed by the Grand Mufti (who >:>:>went underground following a fiery speech in the Dome of the Rock during >:>:>which he called for a jihad against Emperor Constantine.) The Grand >:>:>Mufti styles his ragtag forces the Palestine Liberation Organization, and >:>:>the PLO is joined by elements of the Japanese/Tsarist Siberian >:>:>expeditionary force that survived the mauling by Constantine's troops. >:>:>It soon becomes dangerous to travel alone on rural roads in a wide area >:>:>from Beersheba to Beirut, and the Byzantines are forced to commit extra >:>:>troops to protect the area's population. >:>:> >:>:>Ishii's efforts, after two years of diligent work, in the meantime, >:>:>finally bear bloody fruit in Algeria. On what is ever after called >:>:>"Black Friday", in October 1929, Japaanese-trained and -armed Islamic >:>:>militants explode in violence against the French and French-assimilated >:>:>Arab populaces of the great coastal cities of Algeria and Tunisia. The >:>:>initial outbreaks are soon put down by gendarmerie and regular troops, >:>:>but the scenes of bloodshed are appalling. One of the most shocking >:>:>incidents comes when several hundred German tourists, visiting Roman >:>:>ruins near Tunis, are kidnapped by the terrorists, with many being >:>:>massacred (the rest are saved in a dramatic rescue by the French army.) >:>:>France contritely apologozes to Schicklgruber for the disaster, but the >:>:>German President points out that there is no need for the French to beg >:>:>forgiveness; "It's all the fault of the Japanese." He offers a small >:>:>expeditionary force (two motorized infantry divisions of specially chosen >:>:>volunteers) to help the French restore peace in North Africa; this offer >:>:>is immediately accepted by Paris, and within the months the first >:>:>elements of what is soon to become world-famous as the Afrika Korps are >:>:>debarking in Tunis, having taken the shortest route by train through >:>:>Italy and then boarding ship for the short hop across the Mediterranean. >:>:> >:>:>In his secret command post deep in the heart of the Sahara, Lieutenant >:>:>Colonel Ishii chuckles sardonically to himself. His plans for French >:>:>North Africa are proceeding much as he had charted them, and he sets >:>:>about drafing a request for an additional brigade of Special Naval >:>:>Landing Forces to bolster his commandoes and terrorists. >:>:> >:>:>While North Africa and the Middle East simmer, though, North America is >:>:>undergoing an unprecedented economic boom in the recovery from the Great >:>:>Depression. Al Smith, who becomes President after the end of >:>:>LaFollette's term, presents budgets to Congress with the biggest >:>:>surpluses in America's history. The automotive and aviation industries >:>:>lead the new wave of expansion, and in research laboratories of several >:>:>major US universities, mathematicians and electricians begin to tinker >:>:>with calculating devices making use of electrical impulses and vacuum >:>:>tubes. >:>:> >:>:>One of the landmark pieces of legislation of this period in the history >:>:>of the United States is the Civil Rights Act of 1928, which... >:>: >:>:guarentees voting and legal rights for citizens of all races and genders. >:>:Depending on your perspective, it's the worst mistake they've made yet. >:>:Japanese agents in the Americas secretly subvert US politicians in Texas, >:>:California, and the Deep South, who already hate the fanatically liberal >:>:Smith, even more after his appointment of an elder black statesman named >:>:George W. Carver to his Cabinet. On January first, 1930, the conspirators, >:>:lead by Douglas MacArthur, make plans to launch a seizure of the US >:>:government. Little do they know that Dashing Dwight Eisenhower, >:>:Super-Spy, has infiltrated their organization, and on Christmas Day, >:>:1929... >:> >:>...Eisenhower, the OSS's foremost individual agent (though he's gotten in >:>trouble on occasion with the OSS's chief, Henry Stimson, for what Stimson >:>terms "cowboy" tactics), attends the final planning session at MacArthur's >:>mansion near West Point, NY, hides a microphone inside a potted plant, >:>runs a wire outside to a nearby patch of woods where a broadcast truck >:>(which Ike hired for the occasion) is carefully concealed (fortunately, >:>that winter had been quite mild so there is no snow on the ground that >:>day), and records the whole meeting. That evening, he presents an >:>unexpected Christmas gift to the four major commercial radio networks and >:>the Public Broadcasting System, and the MacArthur Conspiracy is blown wide >:>open. The revelation, during the tapes, that Japanese agents were >:>involved hardens anti-Imperial feelings even further in the US (though >:>President Smith manages, fortunately, to avert any backlash against >:>Japanese immigrants), and grumbles can be read on the editorial pages >:>about how "we should have bombarded Tokyo in '25". MacArthur and his >:>cronies flee just ahead of the police and make it to Japan by the skin of >:>their teeth, where they join the boiling pot of Hapsburgs, Romanovs, >:>Hohenzollerns, Junkers, French and Spanish corporatists, Islamic >:>fundamentalists, and in general everyone with any sort of grudge against >:>the NATO/Baltimore II democratic powers. >:> >:>With the Christmas Coup quashed, the US returns to its usual chief >:>pursuit, business, while still looking worriedly across the Pacific at >:>the Japanese/Siberian menace and east across the Atlantic at restless >:>North Africa. She congratulates herself that Latin America, where her >:>longtime ally Brazil is the leading power, has been fairly quiet for >:>decades, but Japan is also at work behind the scenes there. In >:>Argentina, for example, an ambitious young senator named Eva Duarte is >:>visited in her luxurious Buenos Aires hotel suite one night by emissaries >:>of the Japanese secret service. They have a proposition for her... > >:They want her to marry the adopted heir of the Imperial Dynasty, Hideki >:Tojo. They offer her Brazil and most of South America if she leads them into >:the Japanese/Tsarist camp. She is horrified. For all her ambition, she knows >:how women are treated in the Empire, she is the author of Argentina's female >:sufferage laws. Also, she's enaged to a wealthy American by the name of >:Joseph Kennedy, who originally came down to Argentinal on a business trip. >:Eva tells her fiancee, knowing that he is a good friend of newspaper magnate >:James M. Curley, and a political ally of President Smith. She also tells her >:own President. Duarte's bold offer _almost_ starts a war, and has the effect >:of solidifying inter-American relations, and making Duarte and Kennedy >:household names. Household enough that in 1932, when both the President of >:Argentina and President Smith retire, the newly-married couples are serious >:candidaties for the leadership of their nation. Meanwhile, the European >:Baltimore Axis/NATO powers are getting a tad alienated. With the new, good >:relations between the US and various Latin American nations, with, as UK PM >:George says, that Irish sod MARRYING another country, they're a tad annoyed. >:But they're not really offended, and in early 1934, the leaders of the >:BA/NATO nations even meet in Baltimore to discuss the future of the >:alliance. Little do they know that rogue Japanese agents have a surprise for >:them, one that Kennedy will... > >....be particularly incensed by, as Kempeitai agents under the personal >command of newly promoted Colonel Ishii kidnap Eva Duarte Kennedy >literally from the front row of the audience at the benefit premiere of >the John Barrymore/Norma Shearer epic, "Gone With The Wind". The reason >for this outrage is that Prince Hideki Tojo is still obsessed with the >famous Argentine beauty, and has demented dreams of creating a great >Latin/Asian dynasty on his own hoof. Admiral Yamamoto, who has recently >been appointed as prime minister in Tokyo, is horrified, as he has ideas >of his own about detente between the Asian powers and NATO, but at the >moment he is powerless to intervene without being assassinated. While >Yamamoto fumes and Tojo chuckles, Ishii's agents stuff the furiously >resisting Duarte-Kennedy into a large crate labeled "kippered herring" >and smuggle her back across the Atlantic aboard the British super-luxury >liner _Titanic_, which is nearing the end of a spectacular >twenty-five-year career as the preferred transport mode of the rich and >famous. Ishii aims to spirit her to his North African headquarters >first, then transport her overland to Japanese territory. > >Little does _he_ know, however, that Dwight Eisenhower is hot on his >trail... > > >Eisenhower, to his disgust, has been promoted to Colonel, and is out of field >operations. Luckily, he catches wind of the kidnapping, and manages to get >aboard the ship. Faking a collision with the Great Barrier Reef as they >approach Australia, he follows Ishii when he goes to rescue the crate, and >the two old rivals finally meet. A daring chase ensues across the deck of the >culminating in Ishii's heart-stopping escape aboard a mini-autogyro, built by >ship, the Tsarists...as he triumphantly escapes, though minus his cargo, he >has no idea that a... ..tragic oversight by his epsionage crew - the lack of air holes - has allowed the American First Lady to suffocate to death. When word of the tragedy reaches teh US, the entire nation is plunged into mourning. There are calls for war in Washington and Beunos Aires, and echoed in the European capitals of NATO. The entire world seems to be on the verge of plunging into a horribly protracted war. Fortunately, war is narrowly averted by a sudden uprising in the Japanese government. Tojo's supporters vanish overnight, and the would-be emperor is quietly spirited off to the countryside. Prime Minister Yamamoto orders the arrest of Ishii, who promptly vanishes, and offers sincere apologies to President Kennedy and the people of Argentina for the great crime done to Eviat (as she was belovedly known in both countries). Temnpers remain hot for several days, but eventually, the NATO governments accepts the apology. Ishii is not heard from for over a year. When he finally resurfaces, now allied himself with MacArthur's Christmas Day faction, he announces... ####################################################################### bill@Traveller.COM http:\\www.Traveller.COM\~bill He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast - Prov. 15:15b From CARNet.hr!argos.tel.hr!spamkiller1.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!128.32.206.55!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!Supernews73!supernews.com!Supernews69!not-for-mail Mon Dec 21 12:09:30 1998 Path: CARNet.hr!argos.tel.hr!spamkiller1.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!128.32.206.55!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!Supernews73!supernews.com!Supernews69!not-for-mail From: Randy McDonald Newsgroups: soc.history.what-if Subject: Re: The AH that never ends ... Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 12:03:03 -0400 Organization: Posted via RemarQ, http://www.remarQ.com - Discussions start here! Lines: 142 Message-ID: <367BCE37.6290@isn.net> References: <19981217175113.11607.00000537@ng-fb2.aol.com> <3679B0AD.2580@isn.net> <367A636C.59A14CB9@hotmail.killspam.com> Reply-To: mcdonald@isn.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.167.161.54 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: 914083260 USOTHPAUIA136C6A7C usenet76.supernews.com X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@remarQ.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Xref: CARNet.hr soc.history.what-if:9474 Joseph A. Admire wrote: > > C. Montgomery Burns (cmburns65@hotmail.killspam.com) wrote: > : Joseph A. Admire wrote: > > : > ...strike. With the chaos caused by Eva Duarte-Kennedy's kidnapping > : > (which see elsewhere), the Baltimore Axis/NATO powers are all in a > : > dither, with even the usually unflappable Schicklgruber of Germany, > : > recently elected to a third term as President, barking at his longtime > : > intelligence chief Canaris as he chastises him for not having been better > : > alert to Ishii's plot. "Ishii is the very devil," Schicklgruber fumes. > : > > : > In Tokyo, Admiral Yamamoto temporarily (at least) must put his dream of > : > detente aside, for he _must_, by his sworn oath, obey his Emperor. And > : > what his Emperor calls for is a bold stroke. > : > > : > On February 1, 1934, the Combined Fleets of Japan and Vichy France, along > : > with assistance from Tsarist Siberia, stage history's biggest amphibious > : > assault yet, landing 70,000 troops on the undefended beaches of the > : > Anglo-Dutch Codominium of South Africa. As the second wave crowds ashore > : > at the piers of Durban and East London, the assault echelons lance out > : > toward the British colonial capital at Capetown and the Dutch colonial > : > capital at Pretoria. The objective: the diamond mines of the > : > Witwatersrand. The revenue will make the Asian Powers the richest > : > nations in the world, and send the economies of the Western bloc reeling > : > again for the second time in ten years. > : > > : > Preoccupied by the sensational Duarte-Kennedy kidnapping and the Anglo > : > rebellion in the United States, the Baltimore/NATO powers are caught > : > flatfooted. When the confused radio messages from Capetown start coming > : > into the West's capitals, however, there *is* one force available which > : > can counter the invasion. The Afrika Korps, at its base camps near > : > Algiers, receives warning orders to deploy forthwith to the railhead at > : > Cairo... > > : ... To make the great journey south. The Afrika Korps, now 100,000 > : elite troops lead by Field Marshal Guderian, are joined by the advance > : units of the crack Byzantine II "Justinian" Corps (the Grand Mufti > : rebellion being wiped out at the Battle of Antioch, and rebellious > : sentiment being erased by conversion due to escape the religious tax). > : On the way to the Cape, this army is joined by French detachments. At > : Nairobi, Field Marshal Guderian broadcasts the latest news from the > : front. Due to the continued resistance of the Anglo-Dutch commandos, > : the Japanese retaliate by razing Pietermaritzburg. First all children > : were shot, then the women were raped and then shot, then all the men > : were march out of the city in what was later known as the "Natal Death > : March" and put into camps. This violation of civilized rules of war > : infuriates Guderian (who had a famous temper) and Schicklgurber (on one > : of the rare occasions that he goes into a rage, which shocks his old > : friend Rommel) along with the Afrika Korps and the Byzantines > : (remembering Ishii's intrigues, the Byzantines have no love for the > : Japanese). Guderian was determined to avenge this atrocity. By March > : 1, they cross into Natal, and procede to destroy the Japanese will to > : fight, let's just say that there were few Japanese prisioners at the > : end of the capmpaign. On April 19 (the anniversary of the founding of > : the People's Democratic Republic of France), the Union Jack is raised > : over Durban. the French/Tsarists allies of the Japanese are sent to > : their respective nations to stand trial for their crimes. Schicklgruber > : celebrates this victory of the democratic nations, doubled by the > : surrender of the remnants of the "Free American Republic," which was > : smashed at Vancouver. > > : Meanwhile, deep in the Sahara, Col. Ishii is in his bunker, planning his > : next move. However, his scheming is interrupted by gunfire. The French > : have caught up to him! Realizing that there is only one honorable way > : out, he is found later with his sword in his stomach. > > : At that time, at the Jackson, Ontario, Acadian War Memorial, French > : President Blum (who was making a goodwill tour to the United States) > : falls to his knees and starts to cry. He apologzes for the French > : betrayal of the Baltimore Axis, and vows that it will never happen > : again. > > : The worst of the war is over, as the Baltimore II Joint Chiefs plan on > : how to bring total war to the land of the Rising Sun... > > ...an economic blockade is discussed, but rejected because it would take > too much time; also, as Rommel points out (the German Republic often > taking the lead in matters ethical among the Western democracies), "How > would it help our cause if ten million Japanese children starved?" > Long-range area-bombing campaigns of urban areas are considered and > rejected, for much the same reason; this time, it is the art-loving > Italians, in the person of Marshal Badoglio, who object strenuously, > stating that they could never agree to any plan that ran the risk of the > destruction of Japan's fragile architectural treasures (not to mention, > again, the grave dangers posed to the Japanese public by any such raids - > it is Baltimore II/NATO policy, from the national leaders on down, that > the struggle is against the aggressive leaders, not against the peoples.) > > Sitting in the main conference room of the United States Department of > War just outside Philadelphia, in the massive five-sided structure called > the Pentagram (because the interior corridors form the pattern of a huge > star; US Chief of Staff Bradley complains incessantly about the > incredibly confusing organization of offices), the NATO Joint Chiefs are > temporarily sunk in gloom. British Chief of Staff Field Marshal > Auchinleck gets an idea, though; "What about Eisenhower?" he asks. > > "Ike" is enjoying a well-deserved vacation in Casablanca, French Morocco. > where he has repaired after rescuing Eva Duarte-Kennedy with the help of > the French Foreign Legion; in a poignant sidelight to the chaotic times, > they had a brief affair, but she tearfully left Eisenhower to return to > the husband she loved with the words "We'll always have Casablanca", to > which he replied, toasting her, "Here's looking at you, kid." Wondering > if he'll ever find another woman like Eva, he's sitting in a small cafe > in the Casbah, reading the newspaper accounts of the aftermath of the > South African campaign, when a messenger from the British Consulate finds > him. He carries sealed orders for Special Agent Eisenhower to travel to > Abwehr headquarters in Vienna. > > When Eisenhower arrives in Vienna, Director Canaris receives him and > introduces him to Otto Skorzeny, an army major just returned from service > with the Afrika Korps. Skorzeny hasn't had any previous experience in > covert ops, but is a world expert on Japanese culture. Canaris explains > the mission orders decided upon by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which are... ... the covert assassinations of the Japanese general staff and of Prince Hideki Tojo. > Joe Admire (jadmire@netcom.com) (jadmire@mnsinc.com) > East Carolina 1985 (Go Pirates!)/GWU JD 1989/legal researcher for hire > *Stevie Nicks is _still_ the queen of rock and roll.* > Team OS/2 / WWW: http://www.mnsinc.com/jadmire/ > Due to the high volume of mail coming into my emailbox and Netcom's > policies on charging for disk usage, please do not email copies of posts > made in followup to this post unless specifically requested in the body > of this message. Thank you! -- __________________________________________________________________ R.F. McDonald rmcdonald@upei.ca Home E-mail: mcdonald@isn.net "What! call a Turk, a Jew, and a Siamese, my brother? Yes, of course; for are we all not children of the same father, and the creatures of the same God?" - Voltaire, from Treatise on Tolerance, 1763 __________________________________________________________________ C. Montgomery Burns wrote: > > Joseph A. Admire wrote: > > > As Canaris explains the mission, it is a "decapitation" operation aimed > > at removing the personnel most responsible for the current crisis, and at > > allowing the moderates led by Admiral Yamamoto to assert control over the > > Japanese government, and perhaps even force Emperor Taisho to abdicate > > and be replaced by his son, Hirohito, who is reputed to be in sympathy > > with the moderates (when, that is, he can be gotten to pay attention to > > anything besides his beloved geology; Hirohito is already becoming > > recognized as an expert in the field, and is reportedly on the brink of > > making important discoveries about the plate tectonics which cause the > > earthquakes that so bedevil Japan). > > > > To infiltrate the Empire, Eisenhower and Skorzeny are to disguise > > themselves as Vichy French merchants - both speak fluent French. Canaris > > issues them with the equipment necessary to complete the mission and > > takes them to see President Schicklgruber, who is working on his latest > > painting (he never has given up his art, not even in the shadow of war > > and revolution.) The great Austrian wipes his hands clean on the > > paintstained rag he always carries in his trouser pockets (that rag is a > > national joke in Germany, as Schicklgruber has occasionally absentmindely > > used it as a handkerchief and gotten paint all over his face), and wishes > > the two intrepid agents Godspeed. "On your shoulders, gentlemen, lies > > the hope of a final settlement of the Japanese question," he tells them. > > > > Taking a Portuguese liner (Portugal being one of the world's few neutral > > nations), Eisenhower and Skorzeny make their way to Hanoi, the capital of > > Vichy France in continental Asia. They proceed by rail to Canton in > > Vichy French China, and thence to Shanghai in the Japanese territories. > > It is there that they experience their first real difficulty... > > ...when they are discovered and attacked by the police at the colonial > border between Vichy and Japan. The only reason that they survived is > because of the intervention of the OSS supported group in Vichy. They > are known as the Resistance, lead by a former colonial officer, Col. > Charles De Gaulle. He was stationed in Hanoi as a representative of the > Peoples Republic, and refused to obey the Corporatist government in > exile and went underground with a small group of men. For ten years, > his small band were a constant and irritating thorn in the side of > Petain, who resorted to acting with utmost cruelty towards any that were > suspected of Resistance sympathy. However, this only serves to increase > the Resistance's popularity and increase De Gaulle's popularity (and the > legend that grew with it, he has been regarded as a democratic Robin > Hood). Vichy France is in turmoil, and the Resistance is just waiting > for a spark. > > Meanwhile, the police that were meant to arrest Skorzeny and Eisenhower > were distracted by the Resistance, thet two cross the frontier in to > Japanese China... .... where they take the first commuter train from Fuzhou, in the south of Japanese China, to Shanghai. In the largest city in any of the Chinas -- Vichy, Japanese, or Tsarist -- they look sadly upon the suffering of greater Shanghai's twelve million inhabitants. The recent conflicts between Japan and the Atlantic powers, the continuing instability of Vichy France, and the senseless program of Japanese remilitarization, have reduced what was once almost entirely a middle class community into an impoverished territory. Once they arrive in Shanghai, they are met by Mao Tse-tung, well-known advocate for Chinese reunification and democratization. He helps them get into a freighter bound for the city of Tokyo, the main port of Japan and second in size only to the Imperial capital, Kyoto, itself. After a cramped, week-long ride, Eisenhower and Skorzeny arrive in Tokyo. As they get out of the freighter, hoping to blend into the crewmembers leaving the ship for a few day's leave in the Tokyo fleshpots, both men notice the growing militarization of the main Japanese port. Already, the Japanese naval base has taken over half of the commercial port to make way for its new aircraft carriers. Suddenly, they notice ... _________________________________________________________________ R.F. McDonald rmcdonald@upei.ca Home E-mail: mcdonald@isn.net "What! call a Turk, a Jew, and a Siamese, my brother? Yes, of course; for are we all not children of the same father, and the creatures of the same God?" - Voltaire, from Treatise on Tolerance, 1763 __________________________________________________________________ CongYoGlas wrote: > Admiral Burton K. Wheeler walking out of a bar, arm in arm with General > MacArthur. The two men realize immediatly what is happening. Wheeler, the > commander of the US Ninth Fleet, is in a key position to seize a wide arc of > American assets and bases from Alaska to ANZAC. The two men reluctantly split, > Eisenhower to proceed south into British-controlled Burma to get back to the > States to inform the American government of the treachery, and Skorzeny to > continue the mission. Skorzeny manages to recruit a local collegue, named... ....Albert Speer. He had fled with the collapse of the Hohenzollern monarchy, which he was Kaiser Wilhelm II's favorite architect and made it to Tokyo. However his experience with Japanese militarism, doubled by the privileged information that he had to the South African war, had lead him to have a change of heart. He has top clearance into Japanese circles. Skorzeny has picked his ally well. Meanwhile, Eisenhower makes it to Bengal, (a US colony). He informs the State Dept. about Wheeler's treason and President Kennedy names Admiral Halsey to replace him. When Wheeler learns of this, he tries to flee but is shot buy his own sailors. In Tokyo, Skorzeny decides that the time for action is now... At 09:23 PM 1/1/1999 -0400, you wrote: >Joseph A. Admire wrote: >: >Randy McDonald wrote: >: Joseph A. Admire wrote: >: > >: >[deletia] >: > >: > ...a shattering explosion resounds as the ceiling of the cabinet room >: > comes crashing down. Nearly half the cabinet members are killed outright >: > and the rest suffer varying degrees of injury. Almost immediately, aid >: > workers, including a strong force of Special Naval Landing Force troopers >: > under officers loyal to Yamamoto, arrive on the scene. Yamamoto himself >: > puts in an appearance and orders the arrest of the "plotters"; it just so >: > happens that the identities of the "plotters" are coterminous with the >: > leading Japanese warmongers. There is some very serious civil unrest for >: > the next week or so as diehards ferociously fight back (including an >: > appalling massacre in the heart of the Ginza shopping district), but >: > Yamamoto's constitutionalists soon manage to put down the autocrats and >: > restore order. >: > >: > Admiral Yamamoto, with plenty of crack SNLF troopers in attendance and >: > trailed by the leading lights of Japanese constitutionalism, pays a call >: > on the aging Emperor Taisho at the Imperial Palace in Kyoto. He strongly >: > recommends that Taisho retire, in the time-honored manner of Japanese >: > emperors, and make way for a new Son of Heaven. Taisho takes a good long >: > look at the SNLF soldiers fingering their Arisakas meaningfully and >: > swiftly recognizes the good sense of Yamamoto's suggestion. Hirohito, >: > who is at that time examining a particularly fascinating stratum in the >: > mountains of central Honshu not far from Sekigahara, is found and brought >: > back to Tokyo, where he is crowned as Emperor. Yamamoto, reappointed >: > Prime Minister, orders an immediate cease-fire on all fronts and recalls >: > the Japanese fleets to port. He sends a delegation to NATO headquarters >: > outside Brussels to negotiate a permanent peace and explore the >: > possibility of some kind of eventual association of Japan with the >: > Baltimore powers. On the Asian mainland, in the meantime, the new >: > Chinese People's Republic handily sweeps away Japanese and Tsarist >: > resistance and consolidates its government; down in Indochina, the local >: > democrats also organize national governments. Vietnam is particularly >: > interesting, as the famous haute-cuisine chef Ho Chi Minh returns from >: > Paris to Hanoi, organizes the Democratic Party of Vietnam, sweeps the >: > first national elections, and then, in a startling twist, declines the >: > position of President and instead opens a restaurant of his own in Hanoi, >: > which soon becomes *the* leading destination of the gourmet in all of Asia. >: > >: > The Western powers congratulate themselves on having toppled yet another >: > autocratic power without resorting to full-scale war, and Eisenhower and >: > Skorzeny are the toast of all Europe; the two heroes are recalled to >: > Vienna, where Schicklgruber presents them each with the Knight's Cross of >: > the German Republic and two of his early masterpieces. In their glee, >: > however, the Baltimore Pact nations have temporarily forgotten Tsarist >: > Siberia and rump Vichy France, along with the by-now-gigantic collection >: > of former autocrats, dictators, and assorted trash now rattling around >: > all over Europe and Asia. The "bad guys", by contrast, have *not* >: > forgotten their enemies. The windows of ministry offices in Vladivostok >: > burn late into the night as revenge is plotted.... > >: ... since, after all, Tsarist Siberia, is not only still a Great Power >: despite its territorial losses in China, but a state opposed to the >: humanism and social-democratic liberalism of the Western powers and >: Japan. Rump Vichy France -- limited to the French pacific archipelagoes >: of Hawai'i, Tahiti, Micronesia and the jewel of the Pacific, >: Nouveau-Dauphiné, with a Norman-descended population outnumbering the >: Maori by nine-to-one -- has been much reduced, but still controls the >: Huguenot and Dutch settlements of eastern Australia and the eastern >: islands of the French East Indies. Together, the two states > >: The remainder of the 1930's pass peacefully, as does the first part of >: the 1940's. The new European Union continues to grow and prosper under >: the enlightened leadership of Blum in France and Schicklgruber in >: Germany, despite muttering by reactionaries that two Jews should never >: have been allowed to ascend to a position of near-European dominance. >: The United States continues to prosper, as does Latin America and the >: French, Byzantine, Spanish, and German overseas empires. Even Britain, >: traditionally a laggard since the nasty civil war and revolutions of the >: late 19th century, seems to be participating in the general economic >: revival. Only the Pacific basin remains exempt, due to the disruption of >: the Japanese economy following Chinese independence and the collapse of >: the militarist regime. > >: The successor states to the French Indochinese empire -- Borneo, Java, >: Sumatra, Malaya, Siam, Cambodia, Vietnam, Yunnan, and Guangxi -- all >: band together in the Southeast Asia Commonwealth, united by the common >: use of the French language and a fear of the new Chinese state. Under >: French patronage, Southeast Asia remains an almost exclusively >: French/European sphere of influence, though with growing American >: influence from Bengal: Japanese influence is generally excluded. The new >: Chinese People's Republic is hostile to Japan, due to the long and often >: brutal Japanese rule of eastern China, and in 1936, promptly >: nationalizes all of Japan's investments in China. Though the Japanese >: desperately -- and successfully -- retain their colonial markets in >: Korea, Japanese America, and Vichy France, the United States and Latin >: America prove useful markets for Japanese exports, by 1941 the Japanese >: economy has entered a steep recession. Though Emperor Hirohito promotes >: multi-party democracy, and encourages the growth of the Social >: Democrats, many Japanese long for the days when Japan dominated then >: entire Pacific basin. > >: In 1943, the ... > >...Japanese Nationalist Party, the main conservative party in Japan, >achieves a state of near-parity with the Social Democrats in the Diet >elections; in fact, neither party has a majority. A lengthy period of >bickering and wheeling and dealing ensues as the two parties jockey for >the support of the smaller parties. The small, militarist National >Essence party, led by cashiered general Tomoyuki Yamashita, finally tips >the balance when it negotiates a parliamentary alliance with the >Nationalists in exchange for the post of defense minister. The >Nationalists and their allies, though, still have a razor-thin majority >in the Diet, and besides the leadership of the Nationalist party is just >as committed as anyone else to the new democratic order in Japan. > >China, still extremely sensitive about the Japanese, greets the news from >Tokyo with considerable dismay. Chairman Mao is bombarded with questions >and accusations in the Legislative Yuan, and the centrist, >business-oriented New China Party, under Deng Xiaoping, senses an >opportunity to turn out Mao's Chinese Congress Party at the next elections. >Mao stoutly resists calls to increase defense spending, but does send >missions to Kyoto to ascertain the intentions of the Japanese. When they >return reporting that all seems to be quiet in the eastern neighbor, >China subsides for the time being, though still watching warily in the >direction of the Rising Sun. > >In Europe, Adolf Schicklgruber is starting to get along in years and is >also anxious to spend more time with his new (and younger) wife, Marlene >Dietrich, and their two small children. At the annual executive >conference of the German Workers' Party in the Bavarian Alpine resort >town of Berchtesgaden, he makes the expected (but still distressing) >announcement that he is retiring after the next elections. The Workers' >Party now has to scout around for new leadership for new times. >Schicklgruber recommends the speaker of the Bundestag, Konrad Adenauer, >with Labor Minister Heinrich Himmler (who has made a name for himself by >innovative reforms of working conditions and hours) as his deputy. The >executive committee accepts the grand old man's suggestions, and the >slate is duly forwarded to the party's national convention, which elects >it almost by acclamation. Schicklgruber thenceforth calls elections, and >the Workers' Party, under its new leadership, wins handily over the >Social Democrats, their nearest competitors. As Schicklgruber packs up >his brushes and canvases to move to his family's new flat in Vienna's famous >artisans' quarter, he looks back with satisfaction on the two tumultous >decades in which he has led Germany and helped rebuild Europe, but has an >uneasy feeling in his bones about the future of peace in Asia. He leaves >with Adenauer a document, known as his political "last will and >testament" (even though he's in fine health, of coruse), warning Germany >and the rest of the democratic powers to be wary of any resurgence in >Japanese militarism, Chinese instability, or meddling by Siberia or Vichy >France. > >Schicklgruber is prescient, for the Siberians see an opportunity in this >period of transition. Unlike previous years, when their former >confederates overreached and paid for it, the Tsarists this time move >cautiously. In June 1944, during the run-up to the US presidential >campaign, a mission from Vladivostok suddenly appears in Baltimore. They... ... approach Richard Nixon, the candidate for president of the Nationalist party. Since the suppression of the secessionist Anglo and white minorities of the South (75% Afro-American), California (85% California), the Territory of New Mexico (65% Hispanic and 30% Native American), Louisiana (65% Francophone), and Native American Columbia, many American nationalists have been fearing that the Union is about to come apart at the ethnic seams. The Siberian mission tells Nixon that Siberia will support the territorial integrity of the United States through whatever means the United States so wishes, up to and including military assaults on nationalist secessionists, on the condition that the United States. Nixon enthusiastically welcomes this deal, since he was a closet supporter of the putative Japanese-Siberian-Vichy French alliance and of the Free American Republic. In January of 1945, Richard Nixon becomes President of the United States of America. Almost instantaneously, Nixon orders a federal crackdown upon the Californios, New Mexicans, Native American Columbians, Afro-Americans, Louisianans, and Acadians. The European and Latin American allies of the United States protest, the Parliament of the European Union going so far as to pass a resolution condemning the use of lethal force against civilians, but Nixon convinces the Anglo-American population that Europe and Latin America, two "old, decrepit, corrupt, continents", are unlawfully intervening in the attempts of a nation-state to remain intact. On 2 April, the United States of America shocks the world by announcing that it is withdrawing from the Second Baltimore Pact, with the goal of establishing alliances "consistent with its national integrity". Europe is concerned, particularly France and Spain, which have nine million and twenty-three million co-linguals in the United States, respectively. The French and German authorities anxiously consult Schicklgruber, currently in the middle of an exhibition of his works, as to what to do. Before Léon Blum gets a chance to talk to his old ally, though, a member of American Secret Service in Vienna gets to Adolf Schicklgruber first, on 30 April 1945. Schicklgruber is ... > Joe Admire (jadmire@netcom.com) (jadmire@mnsinc.com) > East Carolina 1985 (Go Pirates!)/GWU JD 1989/legal researcher for hire > *Stevie Nicks is _still_ the queen of rock and roll.* > Team OS/2 / WWW: http://www.mnsinc.com/jadmire/ >Due to the high volume of mail coming into my emailbox and Netcom's >policies on charging for disk usage, please do not email copies of posts >made in followup to this post unless specifically requested in the body >of this message. Thank you!