Hallo zusammen,
 
I'm afraid Michael just missed the deadline and
thus uses up one of his two six-hour grace periods. The only previous instance
of a player entering grace period territory was Nigs in Spring 1937, though -
now that both the USSR and Republican Spain have been eliminated - he won't be
needing any more grace periods anyway. In any case, please get your orders in on
time as I'd rather not fret about players missing deadlines.
 
While I devoted the fall's comment section to the
Republican cause, I've now chosen something suitably triumphalist for the
Nationalists to mark the occasion of Franco's junta being universally recognised
as Spain's government. In game terms this means of course that Spain's (yeah,
there's only one Spain now) 3 DPs may now be employed much as those of any other
great power since Franco's now joined the big league.
 
In regards to the adjucation it's perhaps worth
mentioning that Turkey could not make use of all her gained SCs due to merely
having three build-sites available. So the remaining two are effectively waived,
though I've chosen not to mark that in the orders section and won't do so either
whenever a similar case might occur.
 
Don't miss the colourful non-GM press further
below. Keep it coming, guys!
 
The Spring 1939 Moves are due NLT 6PM CET on Wednesday, 26 May.
 
Liebe Grüsse,
 
Charles
 
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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> (eliminated
Winter 193
    TURKEY: Repu Maoni
<wesaq(at)list.ru>

HEADLINES:
    o CLYDE WHARVES REPORT IMPROVED
QUARTERLY PROFITS THANKS TO INCREASED ROYAL NAVY ORDERS
    o FRENCH COLONIAL ARMY SALUTES THE TRICOLORE ONE
LAST TIME BEFORE SURRENDERING
    o THE DUCE FAVOURS THE REGIA MARINA
    o DEFEATED POLES FALL BACK INTO UKRAINIAN
STEPPES
    o RICKETY TURKISH ARMS INDUSTRY CANNOT KEEP UP WITH
ARMED FORCES EXPANSION PLANS
    o RED ARMY MELTS AWAY LIKE SNOW IN SPRINGTIME
    o CADIZ SQUADRON ADDED TO RESURGENT NAVAL
ARMADA
    o THE CHATTERING CLASSES DEBATE THE DEMISE OF
THE SPANISH REPUBLIC

PRESS:
 
FROM TURKEY:
 
New Government - New Turkey?

Last week we followed the forming of
the new Government by Celal Bayar. And Today the new president of Turkey İsmet
İnönü made a speech concerning the new direction for the Turkish Republic. The
biggest part of the address was concerned with the expansion of the Turkish
borders. Indeed the last movements were quite extraordinarily vast and
aggressive. This let to the rise of the questions about friendship with other
nations. To this the second president gave his answer: |Let the nations jealous
of our might be our enemies. We cannot trust somebody who tries to judge our
Army before our intent. We are better served with destroying, whose who try to
count our strength. We will let them appreciate our strength in the most direct
way possible. Let these, who stand in our way tremble with fear. These who are
our true friends will accept us the way we are." The Masses converged in Ankara
before the Çankaya Köşkü cheered and drowned out the more cautious voices, like
the concerns of Mehmet Vehib Kaçi: |I don't think that, even the latest gains,
Turkey can fight and win the war on all sides. İnönü is making enemies left and
right. This is no way to fight a war. We will probably loose badly. I'd say even
before next year the gains will be undone and the revolution will be brewing
across the Republic." For the moment the cheering still prevails, but should the
armies be defeated, than the mood will change abruptly and maybe the president
will regret his decisions.

November 18, 1938.
 
PIC OF THE DAY: "For Spain - a great and free
one.", Nationalist propaganda poster. Head and shoulders of a soldier
wearing the Nationalist Falangist blue shirt and holding a Spanish flag aloft.
His helmet casts a shadow over his face as he looks up. The yoke and arrows
emblem of the Falange Española de las JONS [Spanish Fascist Party] is clearly
seen on the flag and also centre right of image.


 
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Communists should be crushed
like worms." - Gen. Francisco Franco
 
RETREATS:
 
France:
disband A Tripoli
 
Poland:
A Rumania - Ukraine
 
Republican_Spain:
disband A
Valencia
 
ADJUSTMENTS:
 
Britain:
Build F Edinburgh
 
Germany:
Build F Berlin
Build A
Hamburg
 
Italy:
Build F Naples
 
Poland:
Build A Warsaw
Build A
Latvia
 
Turkey:
Build A Istanbul
Build A
Ankara
Build F Izmir
 
USSR:
Remove A Kurdistan
Remove A
Kazakhstan
Remove A Georgia
Remove A Siberia
Remove A
Archangel
 
Nationalist_Spain:
Build F
Madrid

SUPPLY CENTER OWNERSHIP (Winter 193:

    Britain(5+1=6): +Belgium+,
Edinburgh, Liverpool, London, Netherlands, Tripoli.
   
France(3-1=2): -Beirut-, Brest, Paris.
   
Germany(6+2=: Austria, Berlin, Czechia, Denmark, Hamburg, +Hungary+,
Munich, +Sweden+.
    Italy(4+1=5): Algiers, Milan,
Naples, Rome, +Switzerland+.
    Poland(6+3-1=: Cracow,
+Finland+, Gdynia, Latvia, +Leningrad+, Lithuania, +Moscow+, Rumania-,
Warsaw.
    Turkey(8+5=13): Ankara, +Beirut+, Bulgaria,
+Croatia+, Greece, Iraq, Istanbul, Izmir, +Persia+, +Rumania+, Serbia,
+Stalingrad+, Suez.
    USSR(5-5=0): -Finland-,
-Leningrad-, -Moscow-, -Persia-, -Stalingrad-.
    Nationalist Spain(3+1=4):
Burgos, Madrid, Marseille, +Valencia+.
    Republican Spain(1-1=0):
-Valencia-.
    Neutrals(9-5=4): -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 Spring 1939
Moves: (29) 31 May
    o Summer 1939 Retreats: 2 June
    o Fall 1939 Moves: (5) 7
June
    o Winter 1939 Retreats/Adjustments: 9
June
    o Spring 1940 Moves: (12) 14 June
    o Summer 1940 Retreats: 16 June
    o Fall 1940 Moves: (19) 21
June
    o Winter 1940 Retreats/Adjustments: 23
June
 
MAP: