Hallo zusammen,
 
Spanish Republic, rest in peace! After three years of struggle, the
republic has succumbed to a united front of Latin fascists.
 
To mark this seminal event, I picked a child's drawing from the "They Still
Draw Pictures" collection. Perhaps you'll find it as interesting as I do: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/tsdp/frame.html
 
Of course, the unravelling of the socialist camp does not stop there. The
USSR, after a promising start, is equally history. Lenin must be turning in
his grave - and, in his Mexican exile, Trotsky probably feels vindicated in
his belief that "Socialism in One Country" was an unworkable approach... So
we have our first player elimination. Nigs, please do not forget to submit an
EOG for later publication.
 
Now, the socialists' camp has also taken another hit, if we count France as
being socialist on account of her Popular Front government. The French colonial
troops in Tripoli simply couldn't withstand the uninhibited shelling of their
positions by Anglo-Egyptian forces. Similarly, France's position in the Levant
has been overrun, spelling at least for now the end to the French overseas
empire. Yet at least in Metropolitan France the news is somewhat more positive
as the Armée de Terre managed to halt the German advance on the capital, while
Brest remained in French hands thanks to an Anglo-Spanish standoff there.
 
Matters in the Balkans have also been on the move. Hitherto proudly
independent Hungary and Croatia have finally bowed to outside pressure, the
Germans gaining the upper hand in the former, while the Turks conquered the
latter. Though Turkish Balkan conquests did not stop there as Atatürk managed to
oust the Poles from Rumania and seize those Ploesti oil fields...
 
Farther north, it's equally been a bad season for the lesser powers.
Belgium moved into Britain's sphere of influence, whereas German ambitions in
Sweden have finally been crowned with success. So, in total, the number of as
yet truly independent lesser powers has been halved in a matter of months.
 
The Winter 1938 Retreats/Adjustments are due NLT 6PM CET
on Wednesday, 26 May.
 
Frohe Pfingsten/Happy Pentecost!
 
Charles
 
----------
PLAYERS:
    BRITAIN: Michael Thompson
<psychosis(at)sky.com>
    FRANCE: Joao Queiros
<jlqueiros3(at)hotmail.com>
    GERMANY: Ghostine, Jimmy
<Jimmy.Ghostine(at)vtmednet.org>
    ITALY & NAT. SPAIN: Dirk Knemeyer
dirk(at)knemeyer.com   
    POLAND: Kyle Overby-Lee
<tomjnkns.IL(at)gmail.com>
    SOVIET UNION & REP. SPAIN: Nigel
Phillips <nephilli99(at)hotmail.com>
    TURKEY: Repu Maoni
<wesaq(at)list.ru>

HEADLINES:
    o BRITISH INFLUENCE ASCENDANT IN
BELGIUM AND TRIPOLITANIA
    o FRENCH ONCE AGAIN HALT GERMAN ADVANCE AT THE
MARNE
    o ITALIAN IRREDENTISM IN DALMATIA CANNOT COMPETE
WITH TURKISH EXPANSION IN THE REGION
    o PILSUDSKI'S PROMETHEAN PROGRAMME OF DISSOLVING
THE SOVIET UNION IS COMPLETED BY HIS SUCCESSORS
    o TURKS CELEBRATE RETURN TO GREATNESS
    o DEFEATED REPUBLICANS EMBARK BITTER EXILE AFTER
FRANCO'S WHOLESALE VICTORY

PRESS: None.  
 
PIC OF THE DAY: "Consequences of the war, death of
a hero and the pain of a mother", Concepción Rodríguez (aged 13), Valencia
1936-39(?).
 
POEM OF THE DAY:
Mass
At the end of the battle the fighter lay dead. A man came to
him
and said: 'Don't die! I love you too much!'
But the corpse, alas, went
on dying.

Two came to him and again said:
'Don't leave us! Take heart!

Come back to life!'
But the corpse, alas, went on dying.

Then
twenty, a hundred, a thousand,
Five hundred thousand, came, crying:
'So
much love and yet so powerless against death!'
But the corpse, alas, went on
dying.

Millions surrounded him,
pleading together:
'Brother, don't
leave us!'
But the corpse, alas, went on dying.

Then, all the men on
earth
stood round him. The corpse eyed them sadly,
overwhelmed. He got up
slowly,
embraced the first man, started to walk…

Cesar Vallejo (trans. By Paul O'Prey)
ORDERS:
Britain:
F Galicia - Portugal (*Fails*)
F Netherlands -
Belgium
F English Channel - Brest (*Bounce*)
F Libyan Sea - Tripoli
F
North Sea Supports F Netherlands - Belgium
France:
A Gascony - Paris (*Bounce*)
A Tripoli Supports A
Egypt (*Dislodged*)
F South-Western Approaches - Irish Sea
Germany:
A Austria - Hungary
A Denmark Supports F Baltic
Sea - Sweden
A Lorraine - Paris (*Bounce*)
A Munich - Austria
A
Slovakia Supports A Austria - Hungary
F Baltic Sea - Sweden
Italy:
A Milan Supports A Switzerland
A Slovenia -
Croatia (*Fails*)
A Switzerland Hold
F Western Mediterranean Supports A
Madrid - Valencia
Poland:
A Byelorussia - Moscow
A Greater Poland Hold
A
Leningrad - Finland
A Rumania - Bulgaria (*Dislodged*)
A Volhynia -
Cracow
F Gulf of Bothnia - Leningrad(sc)
Turkey:
A Albania - Croatia
A Alexandretta - Beirut
A
Bulgaria - Rumania
A Persia - Stalingrad
A Serbia Supports A Albania -
Croatia
F Arabian Sea - Persia(sc)
F Black Sea Supports A Bulgaria -
Rumania
F Eastern Mediterranean - Libyan Sea
USSR:
A Archangel Hold
A Georgia Hold
A Kazakhstan
Hold
A Kurdistan Hold
A Siberia Hold
Nationalist_Spain:
A Catalonia Supports A Madrid -
Valencia
A Madrid - Valencia
F Bay of Biscay - Brest (*Bounce*)
Republican_Spain:
A Valencia - Madrid (*Dislodged*)
Belgium:
A Belgium Hold (*Disbanded*)
Egypt:
A Egypt Supports F Libyan Sea - Tripoli
Hungary:
A Hungary Hold (*Disbanded*)
Morocco:
A Morocco Hold
Norway:
F Norway Hold
Portugal:
F Portugal Hold
Sweden:
F Sweden Hold (*Disbanded*)
Yugoslavia:
A Croatia Hold (*Disbanded*)
PENDING RETREATS:
 
Polish A Rumania can retreat to Dobruja or Transylvania or
Ukraine.
French A Tripoli can retreat to Tunisia or Southern
Algeria.
Republican A Valencia can retreat to Granada.
 
PENDING ADJUSTMENTS:
 
Britain:
Build
 
France:
Remove?
 
Germany:
Build
Build
 
Italy:
Build
 
Poland:
Build
Build
Build?
 
Turkey:
Build
Build
Build

 
USSR:
Remove
Remove
Remove
Remove
Remove
 
Nationalist_Spain:
Build
 
Republican_Spain:
Remove
 
SUPPLY CENTER OWNERSHIP (Winter 1937):

    Britain(5): Edinburgh,
Liverpool, London, Netherlands, Suez, Tripoli.
   
France(3): Beirut, Brest, Paris.
   
Germany(6): Austria, Berlin, Czechia, Denmark, Hamburg,
Munich.
    Italy(4): Algiers, Milan, Naples,
Rome.
    Poland(6): Cracow, Gdynia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Rumania, Warsaw.
    Turkey(: Ankara, Bulgaria, Greece,
Iraq, Istanbul, Izmir, Serbia, Suez.
   
USSR(5): Finland, Leningrad, Moscow, Persia, Stalingrad.
    Nationalist Spain(3): Burgos,
Madrid, Marseille.
    Republican Spain(1):
Valencia
    Neutrals(9): Belgium, Croatia (Yug.), Egypt,
Hungary, Morocco, Norway,
Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland.

DEADLINE SCHEDULE: (all orders are due NLT 6PM
CET (GMT+1)...not local time)
    o Winter 1938
Retreats/Adjustments: 26 May

 
ORDERS MAP:
 
RESULTS MAP: