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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH​

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CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE OF GREAT ENGELLEX
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CONGRESS IN DULWICH

The Probelm of Imperial Defence

Yesterday was opened, under the Chancellorship of the Viscount of Wickham, the Under-Secretary of State of the Northern Department, the eleventh Congress of the Chambers of Commerce of the Union of Great Engellex, of which the last took place in 2007. The stately old hall of the Hammersmith Blue Star Lines Company at Battersea Embankment formed a fit meeting place for this Parliament of Trade. The great banqueting chamber, which has witnessed many of the most splendid festivities in the history of the South End of the City, was closely set with long red baize-covered tables, at which sat the delegates of 52 Chambers of Commerce from every part of the Union. Lord Wickham was supported by Lord Ambrose, Earl of Ambrose, and Under-Secretary of State of the Treasury.

In welcoming the delegates, his lordship pointed out that the resolution of the last Congress, in 2007, in favour of petitioning decimalisation in Great Engellex, was successfully put to the House of Lords to be debated; the Great Dulwich Central Line, which was called for by another resolution, is being considered by the Royal Dulwich City Authority, can almost immediately commence construction upon approval.

Dealing with the questions on the paper for the present Congress, the Chancellor noted the large number of resolutions sent in on the subject of a Great Imperial Customs arrangement, and also the prominence that appeared to be given to Imperial Defence. It was a strange change brought about by the whirligig of time that the question of Imperial Defence, which lost us the Empire in the mid-20th century, and seemed likely to likely to sink the prestige of Great Engellex, was now the question above all others which was going to consolidate it.

As to the defence of the Union of Great Engellex, affairs in Himyar showed how closely politics were connected with commerce. Imperial Defence was simply a question of insurance - insurance of our European-wide commerce, our great carrying, and our food supplies. It is the duty of the Government and the Chambers of Commerce to place that defence on a sound business footing. We could lay down no rigid system of imperial defence, our system must be elastic and prepared for any emergency at the uttermost ends of Europe. Let the Chambers of Commerce back up the public opinion which was gathering weight, insist that every part of the Union there should exist preparation in the good time for any possible attack, and also a mutual stocktaking on business principles of the material possessed, that is of value to Great Engellex. Was the short introductory speech from Lord Wickham.

In the evening, a reception was given to the delegates at the Banqueting House by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Dulwich.

AUDACIOUS OUTRAGE IN VAUXHALL​

Late on Saturday evening, as Mr. Favesham, managing clerk in the office of Mr. Geddes Smith, solicitor, of this city, was returning to his residence in Harrogate Stree, when within a few yards of his own house, he was suddenly pounded upon by two ruffians, who sprung from the recessed door-ways by which he was passing. In an instant he was seized from behind, and, his elbows being tightly drawn together, he was thrown upon his back and held down. The other robber snatched at his briefcase, which luckily broke, and his business remained scattered about him. They then rifled his right-hand pocket, which contained only keys. Mr. Favesham’s cries of murder alarmed the neighbourhood, and several windows were thrown up, which caused the scoundrels to take to their heels, without attempting to search his other pockets, in one of which was a considerable sum of money. The thieves carried off his hat, leaving one of their own, which is of Vangalan make, on the ground.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT OF THE UNION OF GREAT ENGELLEX​

WAR OFFICE REFORMS - Lord Tunbridge gave notice of a bill relating to arrangements of reformation of the departments of the War Office.

THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE - Mr. Bentinck gave notice for a Select Committee to inquire into the diplomatic and consular services, as well as, the law on the status and acknowledgement of foreign missions within the Free Union.

INSPECTION OF WORKHOUSES - Mr. Arkright gave notice of a bill for consolidating laws relating to the regulation and inspection of workhouses.

TRADE NORTH OF HIMYAR

Lord of Ashleigh asked the Secretary of State of War whether the Queen, and Cabinet, was aware that the trade along the north of Himyar was in a perilous condition through disturbances on the hostile exchanges between bordering states and notable threatening statements of communist territories; whether the Cabinet had received information that the shipping companies petitioned the Government to arbitrate between them, and that the Government officials delay taking steps to settle disputes, unless amicably; and whether the Government considered using influence to establish stability and insure the security of Engellexic merchant vessels.

Field Marshal Arthur Batten-Lyon, 12th Duke of Rothermere said no doubt the trade along the Northern Himyar Coast will have fallen off at a point, but the prospective revenue would not indicate that the falling off was so serious that it could be described as in a perilous condition. So far as he knew the shipping companies did not petition to join mediation, but the Secretary of State of the Northern Department made every possible effort to stabilise the situation. No disturbances had yet taken place. Her Engellexic Majesty had expressed her intention to lose no opportunity of restoring calm and to insure trade routes maintain secured, and this course of action has been supported by the Northern Secretary.

 

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TRANS-NINEVEH CRISIS
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NAVAL DEPLOYMENT CONSIDERATION

A Naval Programme Proposed & Deployment Considered

Sir Anthony Pelham-Holles, the Secretary of State of the Northern Department in Dulwich, informed the National Revolutionary State of Trans-Nineveh that Her Engellexic Majesty was prepared to send a squadron of the Royal Engellexic Navy into Trans-Nineveh waters, should the junta of the National Revolutionary Republic persist in its refusal to negotiate a settlement, in order to prevent the possibility of casualties upon Crown Subjects in Trans-Nineveh. The Under-Secretary of War read to the Commons Assembly on Wednesday the dispatch received from the Secretary of State of War, Field Marshal Arthur Batten-Lyon, 12th Duke of Rothermere, which was to the following effect: “I inform the Right and Honourable Gentlemen of the Assembly that war with the National Revolutionary Republic of Trans-Nineveh is a justifiable consideration, as threatening the security and interests of Crown Subjects is unacceptable. Great Engellex will petition for the consent of the powers, especially our PASILIA allies, to prevent by force of arms all atrocities on the part of Trans-Nineveh.”

The Speaker of the Commons Assembly announced that he would give way to a Commons Committee Resolution.

The following is the resolution adopted at the Commons Committee on Thursday in support of an armed demonstration against Trans-Nineveh aggression : “Convinced that we interpret the sentiments of Engellexic Crown Subjects everywhere, the people of Great Engellex, deeply penetrated by the grave insult offered to Her Engellexic Majesty by the threat of violent harassment by the security forces of Trans-Nineveh against Crown Subjects within that realm, protest against that vain and unjust proceeding by General Mahmoud Reza Khan. We declare that the Engellexic Crown and Government should consider unalterably in the execution of a naval armament programme, and guarantee the security of every Crown Subject located and resisting within the National Revolutionary Republic. The considerations of Her Engellexic Majesty’s Government will be supported by the definitive and irrevocable decision of the Commons Assembly.”

Dispatches were received from the Secretary of State of the Northern Department at a late hour on Friday night tending to show that there was no prospect of inducing the National Revolutionary Republic to give assurances that they would take no aggressive action against Crown Subjects. Instructions therefore were received on Saturday afternoon by Admiral Lord Victor Napier, in command of the Hammersmith based squadron, ordering him to proceed with readiness to possible deployment to Southern Himyar. Admiral Napier has under his command the following vessels: - Warspite, Courageous, Type-32 submarines; Resolution, Revenge, Repulse, Type-30 submarines; Agamemnon, Thunderer, Monarch, Conqueror, Agamemnon-class destroyers; Cockatrice, Coquette, Type-40 destroyers. Most of these vessels will, if ordered, proceed to Trans-Nineveh waters, and merchant navy vessels will join them to support evacuations.

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE BILL​

A public meeting in support of the objects of the Free National Society for Women’s Suffrage was held last evening at Clarendon Hall, Minster - Mr. G. Williamson, M.P., presided, and upon the platform were Mrs. Elizabeth Spencer and Mrs. Margaret Lawson. The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, referred with joy to the fact that the attendance was quite a very large one.

Women equalled, if they did not excel, men in all the higher qualifications of human existence, and in the interest of morality and of justice it was absolutely necessary that men and women should be put in every respect upon the same platform. Mrs. Elizabeth Spencer proposed a resolution in favour of extending the suffrage to women possessing those qualifications which entitled men to vote, and having the right of voting in all matters of local government. The principle of this resolution, said Mrs. Spencer, appeared to her to be a simple matter of justice.

She was prepared to go still further, and it was this reason that she did not entirely approve of the Women’s Suffrage Bill at present before the House of Lords, because that Bill sought to keep up a sex disqualification by excluding from the franchise unmarried women. This she could not agree with as long as unmarried men were not similarly excluded. To get married was so stupid an act, that she quite admitted that that was a reason for denying the franchise to those who would commit it. But to be just, women should not be made the sole sufferers. Even the kindliest of men had a sort of idea that women were not as sensible as they might be. It was a remarkable fact, however, that women entertained precisely the same idea with regard to men.

Men were superior in some things, but in others they were only like great boys, and women looked in wonderment upon some of their amusements. There was no real difference in the capacity and intelligence of the two sexes, though the mind was not cultivated in the same way in both cases. Whenever the intellect of men and women was cultivated in the same way, they had so far an abundance of proof that women came off the best. How then could they reasonably place the destinies of this country in the hands of the agricultural labourer, who from the want of opportunity was unlettered and lived a life of hard work in the fields, and at the same time exclude women who wrote books or newspaper articles, who conducted large businesses, or had the care of the education of the young?

The question was not a party question, but she must admit that she was in favour of the extension of the suffrage to all classes, as she believed that no one class could legislate for any other. It was for the same reason that she advocated the admission of women to the franchise, as it was a direct effect of their exclusion that the laws affecting their interests were notoriously unjust, and that it was so difficult to effect their reform in the House of Lords.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT OF THE UNION OF GREAT ENGELLEX​

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE - The resolution was seconded by the First Lord, and Home Secretary, Charles Foster, Earl of Onslow, and carried. A second resolution strongly urged the adoption by the House of Lords from the Commons Assembly of the Women’s Suffrage Bill

THE DUMB AND BLIND - The Dumb and Blind Bill was read a third time, as was also the Lunacy Vacation of Seats Bill.

NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CURRICULUM - The National Religious Curriculum Bill, and, the Education Council of Great Engellex Bill were both severly read a second time.

 

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Supreme Command of the Union Forces
Directorate of War
United States of Greater Serbovia
To:Her Engellexic Majesty's Government
From:The Supreme Command
SECRET

It shall be made to your knowledge that since the commencement of the Trans-Niniveh diplomatic crisis, the Stavka has been drafting operational plans for punitive cruise missile and air strikes against the country by the Vladimir Rushkin and Dmitri Karelin carrier task groups as well as submarine wolfpacks launched from their permanent naval bases in Touzen.

At this time, the Regent and Chairman-Director has made it clear that a full-blown military intervention is politically unviable. However, the Imperial government will convey to Dulwich its willingness to engage in a show of force and punitive measure in accordance with our duties as a member state of the PASILA accord.

The Stavka will also convey that its SRK intelligence branch has drafted initial plans to make contact with elements of Trans-Niniveh opposition in order to contribute to domestic measures against the Kohinoor regime. The cooperation of equivalent agencies in Engellex is requested to that purpose.

Regards,
Commander-General Gennadi Telashnikov,
Life Baron of Upper Timashevsk
Chief of the Supreme Command

 

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DULWICH, SUNDAY, 13th MARCH 2011
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The Right Honourable The Secretary of State has received the Command of Her Engellexic Majesty The Queen to make known the following gracious Statement of Her Engellexic Majesty to the Supreme Command of the Union Forces.​

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Extension of The Queen's Statement in Council.​

TO THE SUPREME COMMAND OF UNION FORCES​

It is to be expressed, upon instruction of the Commander-in-Chief, Her Engellexic Majesty;

SIR,

In continuation of my dispatch to the Under-Secretary of War to the Commons Assembly, dated 9th March, 2011, on the minor military operations considered, up to the 15th May, 2011, on the Southern Coast of Trans-Nineveh, and elsewhere in the Revolutionary National Republic, including the Western Coast, and possible regional capitals, I have the honour to submit the following dispatch, which deals with operations subsequent to the above date up to the 15th May, 2011. They are described in the following order:

The Royal Engellexic Navy can afford valuable help throughout in maintaining the active defence of merchant navy vessels and in the destruction of naval assets belonging to Trans-Nineveh. This can be achieved by a deployment of several submarine squadrons. Present considerations due in the operational drafting is the absence of a carrier battlegroup in the Royal Engellexic Navy, air support will be restricted to anti-submarine operations of the destroyer groups.

Protection of commerical ports, measures will need to be taken for the due protection of commercial ports and traffic belonging to Trans-Nineveh. Cruise missile strikes against coastal government institutions and facilities is considered to induce the Revolutionary National Republic to lift the trade embargo placed against Great Engellex and allied nations.

I am much indebted in this connection to the valuable advice and assistance which has always been readily afforded to Great Engellex by the Supreme Command of the Union Forces.

By the Grace of GOD, of the UNION of GREAT ENGELLEX, CHARLOTTE, the QUEEN, through the Right Honourable the SECRETARY of STATE, HIS GRACE, the Duke of ROTHERMERE, FIELD MARSHALL ARTHUR BATTEN-LYON​

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Supreme Command of the Union Forces
Directorate of War
United States of Greater Serbovia
To:Her Engellexic Majesty's Government
From:The Supreme Command
SECRET

Attached is the initial draft of OPERATION HAILFIRE, as devised by the Stavka's Combined Operations Command. However, with the Trans-Niniveh government having backed down on the issue for now, OPERATION HAILFIRE has been relegated into the status of a contingency plan. At this time, the Union Directory has instructed the Stavka to hold back on any implementation of such operational schemes. However, forces earmarked for OPERATION HAILFIRE will be available for evacuation assistance provided that any offensive action to be undertaken occurs with the approval of the Stavka.

In addition, the Union Directory has instructed the Stavka to convey to Dulwich its recommendation that any PASILA military action be restricted to a non-offensive show of force in international waters as well as preparation to assist in an evacuation of Engellexic citizens from Trans-Nineveh soil. For political and diplomatic reasons any offensive action should occur only in the aftermath of any further provocation of a serious nature on behalf of Trans-Niniveh or show of serious threat to the personal safety of PASILA memberstate citizens.

The Union Directory also wishes to convene a meeting of the PASILA Permanent Council with representatives of all memberstates to discuss other political measures to be implemented.

Regards,
Commander-General Gennadi Telashnikov,
Life Baron of Upper Timashevsk
Chief of the Supreme Command

 

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DULWICH, THURSDAY, 17th MARCH 2011
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The Right Honourable The Secretary of State has received the Command of Her Engellexic Majesty The Queen to make known the following gracious Statement of Her Engellexic Majesty to the Supreme Command of the Union Forces.​

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Extension of The Queen's Statement in Council.​

TO THE SUPREME COMMAND OF UNION FORCES​

It is to be expressed, upon instruction of the Commander-in-Chief, Her Engellexic Majesty;

SIR,

I have the honour to report the proceedings of the Privy Council on this most urgent matter.

A flotilla of merchant navy vessels can be organised to support the movement of Crown Subjects from Trans-Nineveh in need to be evacuated, against our natural judgement we are in a position to allow the Revolutionary National Republic governance to negotiate the positions along the coast, to support the flotilla, and to prevent any cowardice by sea and air against the unarmed vessels, Royal Engellexic Navy squadrons can be deployed to sit outside Trans-Nineveh territorial waters.

Operations can commence at the earliest opportunity, however, Her Engellexic Majesty‘s representative to the Council of Nations will once again petition the Revolutionary National Republic to find agreement in the establishment of an evacuation programme.

We are in agreement on the necessity to convene a meeting of the PASILA Permanent Council. Her Engellexic Majesty considers the political climate within Trans-Nineveh with urgency.

By the Grace of GOD, of the UNION of GREAT ENGELLEX, CHARLOTTE, the QUEEN, through the Right Honourable the SECRETARY of STATE, HIS GRACE, the Duke of ROTHERMERE, FIELD MARSHALL ARTHUR BATTEN-LYON​

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REVOLUTIONARY-FEMINIST AGENDA
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WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE BILL IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS

Lord Charles Standish-Meredith Advocates Against the Bill

A real sensation has been made by Lord Charles Standish-Meredith’s speech upon the actual application of the electoral law, that would be practised should the Women’s Suffrage Bill pass, pronounced within the House of Lords.

Lord Standish-Meredith is usually so pleasant, so reserved, so compromising, that he loses the cause he pleads, and gives way to his opponents. But this time he gave his adversaries no loophole to escape out of, and obliged them to listen to one of the most mischievous tirades ever made against the ministers of Queen Charlotte since her ascension to the Throne of Engellex. It is thought of by many, that the Ministers, there is no doubt, has laid itself open to this attack, and the escapades and dastardly acts by the suffragette fringe desiring to impose a revolutionary-feminist agenda will probably be prolific in fruits of the same kind.

Lord Standish-Meredith’s whole system of argumentation was this :- “Her Engellexix Majesty is a great Sovereign, a strong Sovereign, a magnificent Sovereign, and I am penetrated with the deepest respect for the Queen; but all the greatness, all the strength, and all the splendour rests upon one basis, one basis only - - national etiquette and decency; and if decency be not, if it be tampered with, if it be undermined, all is as nought, and there is a travesty before our eyes.”

After glorifying the Union of Great Engellex, Lord Standish-Meredith was so unavoidably attended to on Monday, when he said, “All the greatness of our Union would be unable to guard the Sovereign and her ministers against the principle of dissolution which would result from the exploitation that will manifest upon the extension of the franchise. If I were a man of violent revolutionary and lunatic opposition I should rub my hands for joy in secret over the possible passing of the (Women’s Suffrage) Bill. I should pray that I might render many such, and that the Constabulary might be compelled to vigorously enforce the law; that Their Lordships might be encouraged to denounce to the Sovereign as their enemies men and women who had held political office of sorts, and be confident to imprison the heralds of suffrage extension to the revolutionary fringe.

I should ardently desire all this; but, as a good Crown Subject, I do nothing of all this, and merely wish to warn the Queen’s ministers in all justice and good faith.”

EVACUATION OF TRANS-NINEVEH​

In reply to a question put by the Honourable Rupert Nesbitt, relative to the delay in the evacuation of the Revolutionary National Republic of Trans-Nineveh, and the manifestation of political instability of the southern Himyari state.

The Northern Secretary, Anthony Pelham-Holles, explained there had been frequent communications between the Northern Department and the War Ministry as regarded the evacuation of Trans-Nineveh by a chartered flotilla of merchant navy vessels; and that the last account which received was contained in a dispatch of the 28th of March, in which it was stated that some of the merchant vessels had already commenced their voyage, and that in about three weeks a great number of the Crown Subjects would have been evacuated.

The War Ministry proposed to keep a naval flotilla within international waters in southern Himyar, to serve on emergencies, which should be assumed to be a restricted occupation by them; and should, not consequently, form a subject of fresh tense communication with the regime in Trans-Nineveh. With regard to the political climate in the Revolutionary National Republic, he was concerned to say that, as yet, the ministers of Her Engellexic Majesty had not reached an accord for the endeavours of the government of Great Engellex to effect stability and the restoration of economic links with the southern state. However, it was not true, as was stated in a commercial publication, that there had been an interview of the ministers, at which a contingency to impose security through a military deployment was agreed upon.

 

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From the office of Alan McBundy
Director of the NO M'AM society of Bantyr

We support the opposition of the Women's Suffrage by Lord Charles Standish-Meredith, women are miserable creatures who should be confined to the kitchen cooking full time for their providers. We also see that Lord Charles Standish-Meredith has a hyphenated name, most likely imposed over him by some insufferable "liberated" women who has too much time on her hands and should instead be looking for a way to please her husband.

 

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Ministry of External Affairs

The Engellexic Union's membership in the Pasila Accord makes the alliance's claims to be the defenders of democracy and freedom laughable. It is intolerable that Engellexic women are denied full freedom on the basis of their gender. In contrast, the People's Republic of Vangala has made great strides in achieving women's liberation and demands Engellex to follow our example and establish gender equality.

 

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Directorate of the State
United States of Greater Serbovia

As long as a one-party Communist state claims the right to lecture other nations on democracy they make even cesspits such as Solaren and Trans-Nineveh appear democratic.

The Union strongly implores Engellex to pursue a more inclusive political system to bring its national political system into the level of democracy in the twenty-first century.

Regards,
Hon. Mr. Petar Nikolich,
Director of the State,
United States of Greater Serbovia

 

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DULWICH, THURSDAY, 31st MARCH 2011
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The Right Honourable The Secretary of State has received the Command of Her Engellexic Majesty The Queen to make known the following gracious Statement of Her Engellexic Majesty to the Regent, their Lordships and the People of Greater Serbovia.​

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Extension of The Queen's Statement in Council.​

TO THE REGENT AND LORDS OF GREATER SERBOVIA​

I am instructed to express on behalf of Her Engellexic Majesty;

That the Queen’s ministers had indeed prepared the consent to a well considered measure for the extension of the suffrage, so as to keep pace with the increasing education and influence of the people, we believe that as the foundations of the constitution would be enlarged, the fabric itself would strengthened.

Her Engellexic Majesty constantly endeavours to bring into law the extension; the Queen’s ministers are fully committed to the realisation of that endeavour.

By the Grace of GOD, of the UNION of GREAT ENGELLEX, CHARLOTTE, the QUEEN, through the Right Honourable the SECRETARY of STATE, ANTHONY PELHAM-HOLLES​

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VESPER, FRIDAY, 1ST APRIL 2011
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The Chief Officer of the Foreign Office has marked
this message as PUBLIC, pertaining
to the public at large.​

Written in Sworn Service to our Sovereign Engellexic Majesty Queen Charlotte.​

TO THE DISTINGUISHED IMPERIAL OFFICE IN ENGELLEX
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Evident is the notion that forbearance from suffrage has not significantly obstructed Engellex from sustainable, distinguished traditions in quality of living. If Her Engellexic Majesty would indeed seek to expand upon her altruistic policies, then Cantigny is unmistakably faithful to a cause that further empowers Her subjects to manageable levels.

Given that Cantigny has previously achieved a standard of suffrage amongst all male and female citizens, we feel that our realm of understanding could serve to be a valuable asset to the Motherland. Our Pasila allies are further tools at our disposal, whom we personally consult in matters of contemporary democracy. It should naturally be our preference to allow cultural tradition to serve as our compendium, yet we are now exhibiting a capacity to observe and apply progress that has prospered in other realms throughout the world.

BENJAMIN STOKES - CHIEF COLONIAL OFFICER - COLONIAL OFFICE of FOREIGN AFFAIRS​

 

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ARESURA CRISIS
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GREATEST PASILA SNUB

A Royal Perspective Over the Aresura Deployments

A strong opinion exists in Dulwich that Engellex is troubled and baffled by the swift deployment of naval flotillas by Touzen and Greater Serbovia to the tense situation in Aresura, who they say could manifest itself into an apple of discomfort between Engellex and her PASILA allies; but that idea presently exists only in the minds of curious and apprehensive politicians, who are always upon the look out for what may possibly have an evil bearing upon Engellexic interests.

Engellex can have no particular feeling for the insurrection against democratic institutions in Aresura otherwise than as may be for any of the other troubled frontiers of Europe. Our statesmen are not likely to interfere between the opposing sides in Aresura, or in any capacity deemed necessary by Touzen and Serbovia. “Engellex will now,” proclaimed the leader of the opposition, “pass out of the active sphere of Boreas policy. In this circumstance we recognise the need of a peaceful symptom of the situation. For that ideological and regional powers will not fall foul of one another on the question of whether to legitimise the revolutionary confrontation against democracy may be guaranteed by the activity of the PASILA members, Serbovia and Touzen, which has never been more marked than during the last week.”

The agreeable prediction will be observed to leave Engellex out of the happy brotherhood of peacekeepers, who are perceived to be giving Engellex a snub of the greatest degree. But Serbovia and Touzen are bound over to keep this peace, and a triple alliance, whereby Great Engellex would creep in under the cloak of the Powers of the Orient, would not be attended with satisfaction to either one of the three.

The general political belief is that “Engellex being engrossed with regional and her own domestic affairs, and having neither power nor will to deploy naval flotillas to Boreasic waters, the understanding between the PASILA members seems to be plainer than ever.” Engellex, however, is not going to rashly embroil herself in the troubles in Boreas. And as for the other members of PASILA they must take their chance of a turn-up of events. The end is not seen yet.

PARLIAMENTARY PETITION TO THE QUEEN​

Annexed is a copy of the Petition to the Queen which has been recommended by the Pitts sitting in the Commons Assembly for the adoption and signature of the members of both the House of Lords and Commons Assembly of Engellex. It was confidently expected that number expressing an excellent majority of those of the Lords and Commons would be appended to it.

To the Queen Charlotte the Most Excellent Imperial Majesty. The humble petition of the Great Engellexic representation at Dulwich, the Members of the Commons Assembly, express-

That it is the glory and happiness of your Majesty’s petitioners to form a part of your Majesty’s glorious and most virtuous established institutions; united together in mutual agreement of national interest, affection, and duty; proud of possessing the domestic and moral opinion of Great Engellex; to safeguard the society, the laws, and the religious faith of Great Engellex; and conscious that the illustrious constitution which has given them responsibility has impressed upon them a character not unworthy of herself.

Your Majesty’s petitioners humbly represent that as the glorious past belongs to the parchment of history, the future belongs to the unwritten legislations of Parliament; and among the bright visions of the future there is not one more cheering than that which exhibit’s the Sovereign and Parliament as Protectors of the grateful refuge and pleasant home of millions of industrious and honest men, the honourable population of the Union of Great Engellex.

Your Majesty’s petitioners humbly represent that the magnificent capabilities of ministries, as institutions of Public Service and Duty, are greatly impaired, and your servicemen, as dutiful Protectors, are grievously injured, by the wrongs inflicted directly on the War Estimates, and indirectly by Policy of Foreign Approach. Its appalling results to her Majesty’s Armed Forces have been disclosed by Parliamentary inquiries, and have been repeatedly attested, and depicted with expressions of outrage by your Majesty’s ministers. Your Majesty’s ministers have been pledged to its discontinuance; but nevertheless the deterioration of our armed capabilities continues unabated.

Your Majesty’s petitioners, therefore, humbly beseech your Majesty to procure the immediate cessation of reformations to her Majesty’s Armed Forces; and, further, that your Majesty with be graciously pleased to the adoption altogether of an Armed Policy of National Duty which your Majesty’s petitioners feel to be so fitting, so dutiful, and so just to the preservation Engellexic self-determination.

MANUFACTURES & TRADE

GREATER SARMATIAN TARIFF - It having come to the knowledge of the Chambers of Commerce of Great Engellex that her Majesty’s ministers were about to revise its tariff considering that a favourable opportunity presented itself for endeavouring to obtain a reduction in the rate of duty levied upon certain descriptions of Sarmatian manufactured goods, which were admitted upon much less favourable terms than similar manufactures of Vistrasie and Serbovian origin. Determined to memorialise her Majesty’s Secretary of State of the Northern Department, the House of Lords called to his attention the subject, and pointing out the equally disadvantageous position in which the Sarmatian and Engellexic manufactures were placed in anothers market; and praying that the influence of her Majesty’s ministers might be exerted in endeavouring to place the trade between this country and Greater Sarmatia upon a footing as favourable as is enjoyed by many another nation.

A reply was promptly received from the Marquis of Handowne, the Foreign Affairs representation to the Lords, to the effect that the memorial would be forwarded to her Majesty’s minister at Stary Hrodino, who had already been instructed to take such measures as were practicable for the object indicated.

TRADE WITH CANTIGNY - Information having reached the Chambers of Commerce of Great Engellex alleging that an ordinance had been issued by the President of the Public Board of Trade, decreasing the import duties on certain descriptions of Cannie manufactures, while similar goods, the produce of the Batavien Republic, were admitted either at an equal rate or altogether much higher in duty. The directors at once addressed a letter to the Office of the President upon the subject, with a view to ascertaining whether there were any grounds for the statement, and expressing a hope that in such a case the sanction of her Majesty’s ministers might be further extended to a course of proceeding so encouraging to the mercantile interests of Cantigny and Engellex.

A reply was received from the Lord Burkefield, the Board of Public Trade’s representation to the Lords, to the effect that the measure of decreasing the duties on Cannie imports into Engellex which had been received by him, was to facilitate the common interest of industry between the two countries, and that such statements of duties for Batavien manufactures were most unfounded to his present knowledge.

 

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NEW CANNIE CABINET
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THE IMPERIAL MINISTRY OF ILCHESTER

The Ministry of Felix Ilchester is well received by the Union

Felix Ilchester … Chancellor of the Commonwealth
HRH, the Princess Royal … Deputy Chancellor of the Commonwealth
Rich Green fax … Guardian of the Commonwealth
Patton Aylesford … Lord Admiral of the Oceanic Fleet
Mitchell Wald grave … Army Chief & Master of the Corps
Peter Delaval … Commandant of the Aerial Assault Force
Benjamin Stokes … Chief Colonial Officer of Foreign Affairs
George Dacre, Lord Treasurer … National Board for Economics
Scooter Grey, Lord Judicator … National Board for Justice
HRH, the Princess Royal … National Board for Culture

This Cabinet will most probably be referred to as an Imperial Ministry, as opposed to the Republican Ministry that presided before. Out of the twelve who form the Cabinet, three of the ministers have backgrounds relating to two of Cantigny’s largest corporations; and it is worthy of remark that the post which has been confided to her Royal Highness, the Princess Royal, is that of the least importance in the political sense of the world, that of the National Board for Culture. The Lord Treasurer is certainly seen as a gentleman with a quality that can be called on to bring measure against the troublesome circumstance of the Cannie economy, and to certainly bring it to a great station.

Benjamin Stokes holds a respectable name, the office of Chief Colonial Officer of Foreign Affairs, which historically, used to be regarded as the highest by Dulwich, has, under the previous Administration, been allowed to fall into a succession of calamities of the most inexperienced character. Before Dulwich quarrelled with the Cannie ambassador on the question of imperial regard from the Officer of Foreign Affairs under the last Chancellor, the Cannie Foreign Office was graced with generous recognition and stature within Dulwich.

If we are to judge of the prospects of the new Cabinet by the opinions expressed by the Vesper dispatches, its existence promises to be a flourishing one. It is seldom that a newly-born ministry has been received with so great a chorus of expectation. With the exception of the Hammersmith Independent, none of the leading papers have any concern and speak of great confidence in the new ministers. Even the Union Guardian, which has formed so large the minority of support for Eustrache Bertrand, speaks of his successor with great warmth.

It is perceived that a better understanding can be achieved between the Commonwealth of Cantigny and the Union of Great Engellex. Members of the Commons Assembly have described the expectations as being those that which can deliver greater cooperation in the region of defence and security, without detailing specific points of that. On the matter of the economies of the two realms, it is acknowledged that the Queen will certainly prescribe a series of measures to bring bilateral trade to a more respectable position.

INSURRECTION IN TRANS-NINEVEH​

The disarrangement of trade in Trans-Nineveh, consequent upon continued turbulence in the Southern Himyari state, is now become of such magnitude, that the period appears to have arrived when it is necessary for the representatives of foreign powers, resident in the capital of Dulwich, to enter upon some correspondence with her Imperial Majesty and ministers upon the subject.

Judgement must be made of the seriousness of the situation more by the consequences entailed than from the uncertain and politically motivated reports from time to time reaching us out of Ko-I-Noor. There are not many in Europe who possess either the means or the inclination to seek out a resolution to what crisis has manifested within Trans-Nineveh, and one the great difficulties in arriving at the actual state of things is, the recent absence of Engellexic diplomatic and civil persons within that state following their evacuation by the Royal Engellexic Navy.

That the progress of the insurgency has been so great that the whole available resources of export from that state has been put into question, and with the uncertainty reflecting upon the value of commodities the attention of Dulwich has been speedily brought to the condition of the export industrial metals from Southern Himyar. Which Great Engellex is an importer of. It would also appear that the member states of the European Defence Federation have been either unable to concentrate a modest statement on the issue, which allowed assets of the member states to be seized in Trans-Nineveh, or have acknowledged an obligation to retire from the affairs of Himyar.

MANUFACTURES & TRADE

EUROPEAN DEFENCE FEDERATION - The European Defence Federation, under their exclusive system of trading, has now become one of our worst customers, and it is feared by many well informed persons in Dulwich, most notably the President of the Public Board of Trade, that, in order to support and pay their present enormous militaries - which appears likely to impoverish the industries of the lesser countries - they will be compelled to increase import duties upon foreign produce and manufactures to possibly restrictive levels. It has been a wonder that has baffled the economic and academic forums of Great Engellex recently as to what policies have allowed such states to finance grand armies against the backdrop of equally, if not more so, grander welfare.

The Royal Dulwich Arsenal and Ordnance stated their anticipation for a report on the great defence industries of these countries.

 

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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH​

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THE POLITICAL SITUATION
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WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE BILL MEETING

Members of the Pitt Party held a meeting on the Women's Suffrage Bill

A meeting of Pitt proponents of the Women’s Suffrage Bill was held last evening in one of the rooms of the House of Lords in Dulwich to discuss the political situation and to consider the policy to be pursued in view of a possible defeat of the Bill.

The meeting was called at a few minutes notice; nevertheless, there was a good attendance, fifty-seven members of the Commons Assembly and peers of the House of Lords being present. Home Secretary, and First Lord, Charles Foster, the Earl of Onslow presided, and amongst those present were members of the cabinet, Treasurer, and Second Lord, Thomas Grey, the Earl Grey, the Justice Secretary, Edward Russel, 3rd Earl Russel, as well as, Sir Robert Conroy, Sir Anthony Hillingby, Sir Walter Dawson, and George Williamson, all of the Commons Assembly. Her Majesty the Queen was represented by the Lord Secretary of the Imperial Household.

Great indignation was expressed at the attitude which has been assumed towards members of the Pitt Party in support of the Women’s Suffrage Bill, and it was suggested that all threats should be treated as personal in nature, in regard to which explanation should be demanded. A strong determination was expressed by those present to defend themselves against public attacks of the kind that have manifested, by use of the full force of the Law of the Land. A suggestion was made that those of Parliament who were in support of the Bill should form the Suffrage 2011 Committee for the betterment of cooperation and organisation of support for the Bill in Parliament. The majority of those present, however, objected to this course on the ground that it be regarded as an invitation to the Whig Party to demand support in several policy areas, which would be a menace for the Cabinet and especially the Queen.

The opinion of the meeting appeared to be that a reconciliation was still within the range of probability, and it was felt that any step which would endanger this prospect for the Pitt Party would be impolitic.

The meeting was unanimous as to the desirability of prolonging the debate on the reading of the Bill in the House of Lords for as long as possible, although the end of the year being indicated as a limit which ought on no consideration to be overstepped. The proceedings throughout were of a most harmonious character, and at their close it was stated that the number of Pitt members ardently supporting the Women’s Suffrage Bill, as still intending to vote in favour, was predicted to be in a narrow majority.

COMMONWEALTH OF VISTRASIA​

Intelligence from Threveburg to-day states the following: “We have received a statement from Her Engellexic Majesty’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Commonwealth of Vistrasia supporting what has been perceived as a positive reception of the new leader of the Catholic People’s Party, Andries Marais by the Commonwealth. The progression of the important election of to-day (referring to the 2011 election) has been that the presumption of the Queen’s Minister in Threveburg of the implications of relations between the Union and the Commonwealth will bring about a re-focus and strengthening by propositions of economic and regional political regard.”

The intention to finance a project with achievement of modernising the Army of Vistrasia was acknowledged positively by the Secretary of the Northern Department, Anthony Pelham-Holles.

 

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs

We wish to point out that generalizations are an act due to incompetence. Failure to complete research or to be entirely too lazy to fully provide facts, leaves many in the dark about the truth.

EUROPEAN DEFENCE FEDERATION - The European Defence Federation, under their exclusive system of trading, has now become one of our worst customers, and it is feared by many well informed persons in Dulwich, most notably the President of the Public Board of Trade, that, in order to support and pay their present enormous militaries - which appears likely to impoverish the industries of the lesser countries - they will be compelled to increase import duties upon foreign produce and manufactures to possibly restrictive levels. It has been a wonder that has baffled the economic and academic forums of Great Engellex recently as to what policies have allowed such states to finance grand armies against the backdrop of equally, if not more so, grander welfare.

The Royal Dulwich Arsenal and Ordnance stated their anticipation for a report on the great defence industries of these countries.

Nicosia, a European Defence Federation member, currently has the world's smallest standing military at under 25,000. In fact, if proper research had been completed, it would likely show that EDF military size per country, is in fact fairly average when compared to a list of other nations.

 

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"It is quite ironic that a report such as this would come out of Engellex, a nation that has a defence budget, in relation to its GDP, is nearly double of any EDF member."

- Sir Edwin Wolfe, General Secretary of the EDF, in response to the report from the Engellex President of the Public Board of Trade

 

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DECLARATION OF WAR
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WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE BILL PROPOSITION

The Commons Assembly Declares War on the Queen and the Women's Suffrage Bill

A debate on the Women’s Suffrage Bill succession through to the House of Lords evolved into a proposition by the Whig Party and disinterested members of the Pitt Part, against the bill, which concluded with a seemingly pre-emptive defeat of the Queen’s administration of the extension of the franchise. Mr Edward Ogilvy of the Whig Part front bench in the Commons Assembly having proposed the following order of the day for the 13th of May, ‘The Assembly declares that is has no confidence in the Cabinet’s deliberation on the extension of the franchise with need to pause further proceedings of the Women‘s Suffrage Bill, and passes to the order of the day,’ the Commons Assembly divided -

Number of voters - 600
For the order of the day - 341
Against it - 259

Majority against Ministers - 82​

The division shows the most extraordinary confusion of party loyalties. The majority is composed of the opposing members of the Pitt Party, ultra-conservative, the front benches of the Whig Party, who are the official opposition but supported the extension in party publications, the Nationalist League of Greater Engellex, and the Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij, of the Duchy of Westmooreland. It appears, however, that ninety-eight of the left-leaning Whig back benches who strongly support the extension, voted against the proposition, breaking party loyalty. Among them are Mr. Jean Rousseau, a prominent parliamentarian from Baden in the Grand Duchy of Wantage.

The greatest surprise has been excited by the conduct of Mr. James Hasting-Saschen, a protégé of Lord Charles Standish-Meredith who drew the attention of the international community on his opposition to women’s suffrage, who, after having been one of the most violent opponents of the Bill and the Ministers of the Queen, voted against the proposition. The only reasoning provided by the associates of his circle for the change is, that he was disgusted at finding an alliance with prominent gentlemen of the Whig Party benches.

Immediately on the rising of the Commons Assembly, the Ministers conferred with those of the House of Lords before going to the Royal Palace, for the purpose of suggesting possible directions of exploration. They were at once received by the Queen, who, however, stated that she would take time to consider before coming to a determination on the subject.

COMMONWEALTH OF CANTIGNY

HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE BUTCHERED​

REPUBLICAN MASSACRE AT VESPER​

There is unhappily too much reason to believe that the worst thought of may have happened at Vesper, but as yet there is nothing sufficiently trustworthy to hand to make it certain that a succession of massacres will not follow to amplify the atrocity that took place on Saturday the 7th May at Vesper.

Two Cannies, formerly in the service of the Lord Mayor of Dulwich’s Legation to the City of Vesper brought first hand intelligence of the act of violence against Chancellor Felix Ilchester and members of the National Government, where forty people are dead and two hundred seriously injured. Preparation was, it was said, well structured, intelligent and executed timely. Those of the Chancellery was then attacked by a bomber ramming a vehicle loaded with high explosives into the Chateau de Chancelier, and many men, women and children, to the number of forty, massacred. The Northern Department affirms that the assorted Engellexic legations in Vesper to be still safe, but says that it has contacted the Queen’s Scretary of State to suggest re-evaluation of security.

It has been cited that Queen Charlotte has been driven to violent outbursts against Ministers and the Imperial Chiefs of Staff for not anticipating an attack.

Statements in the House of Lords elicited nothing of importance until Thursday evening, when the Earl of Gisbourne, who has vested family and business interests within the Commonwealth, asked the Marquis of Handowne, the Northern Department’s representation to the House of Lords, whether this country was now at war with suspected nations harbouring republican figures throughout the Oceanic territories. The Marquis of Handowne responded by saying that he should not consider this country at war with any other at this present time. Replying to the Lord of Wandsworth, the Marquis of Handowne said :- ‘We have no later news from Vesper than that already communicated, and we have no confirmation of the rumours which appeared in some of the nations papers as to the Tangaloa Islands harbouring elements of the terrorism organisation. As regards the question of security, in the opinion of the Imperial General Staff no further reinforcing of security can be made until there is a political environment for this in Vesper. In respect of this, we will be hourly expecting a reply from the Chancellor of the Commonwelth to a communication we will address to him.

Her Engellexic Majesty’s Minister in Vesper will be intimating to the Cannie national papers that the republican ideological movements will be held personally guilty if the people of Cantigny suffer further from any more acts of great violence. The Queen’s Minister has been requested to convey this message in such a manner as will ensure its understanding, and its purport will be made known to the Chancellor of the Commonwealth.’

COMMONWEALTH OF VISTRASIA​

It has already been informed that the Lord-Protector of the Commonwealth of Vistrasia is to meet the Queen of the Union of Great Engellex on the 20th of June. To this occasion of state is attached the more political importance, as it can now be further informed of. It will not be the affairs of old unionism so much as regional and European affairs that will be really on the table; and the Duke of Westmooreland, though not nominally belonging to a state occasion, will really have much to say at the time. It is to be recollected too, that Vistrasia is no longer to be numbered among the politically isolated states, or even states of isolationist tendency, but is inclined probably to go further in the development of regional progress than even Batavie.

At first, the prime object will not be so much the strengthening of cross-border ties between the two states, but as for the formation of a strong economic and regional political relationship. The Queen has also insisted that the Duke of Westmooreland shall have a position in the discussions, which will really give weight to propositions of greater interaction and a stronger relationship, as allowed within the parameters of the constitution, between the Duchy of Westmooreland and Vistrasia.

 

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs

We wish to point out that generalizations are an act due to incompetence. Failure to complete research or to be entirely too lazy to fully provide facts, leaves many in the dark about the truth.

Nicosia, a European Defence Federation member, currently has the world's smallest standing military at under 25,000. In fact, if proper research had been completed, it would likely show that EDF military size per country, is in fact fairly average when compared to a list of other nations.

DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH
CORRESPONDENCE​

Sir, - I am desired by the Editor Master and directors of the Dulwich Evening Dispatch to solicit you to consider our position and intentions with the issue that you have corresponded to us :- The directors of the Dulwich Evening Dispatch have considered necessary for you to allow again us to trespass on this space respecting the system of trade, government financing and army estimates, which are rapidly gaining the attention of readers in the Union of Great Engellex, as well as, her dominions. Your correspondent of Friday the 6th of May expressed a abhorrence for the quality of journalistic research conducted by the professionals of our paper. But perhaps for the Foreign Ministry, who found great offence, failed with their concern to consider that the public generally are most certainly not learned of the independence of Nicosia from the political puppetry of the Second Frankish Empire.

That Nicosia is not of the same governance as the Frankish Kingdom we are prepared for the Foreign Ministry of Nicosia to prove.

"It is quite ironic that a report such as this would come out of Engellex, a nation that has a defence budget, in relation to its GDP, is nearly double of any EDF member."

- Sir Edwin Wolfe, General Secretary of the EDF, in response to the report from the Engellex President of the Public Board of Trade

DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH
CORRESPONDENCE​

Sir, - I am desired by the Editor Master and the directors of the Dulwich Evening Dispatch to express their exceeding pleasure at learning of your selection of quality Engellexic journalism, however, it has been a concern that you should find an offence to the article regarding the European Defence Federation. With your point that was made on the percentage of army estimates against gross domestic product is certainly correct, your point forgets to inform that the Union of Great Engellex does not support an expansive welfare system, as the army estimates of the Union account for over fifty percent of national expenditure. It is also worthy of notice the difference in defence policy of the European Defence Federation and the Union of Great Engellex.

The latter does not support a program of unsustainable financing of military procurement, that is, procurement of greatly advanced weaponry systems as to surely require a need of serious consideration of where the funds for that indulgence can be found.

And while the Army Estimates are consistently being reviewed to ensure unnecessary expense does not occur, the War Ministry does indeed find periods of gross waste in its accounts, but this should not distract you from our point :- Defence spending of the European Defence Federation is not presently sustainable.

 

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Nicosia's independence has long been recorded. In fact, we have shipped all three volumes of Taliano's "A History of the Long Sea: 1100-1990" and Taliano's "A History of Southern Gallia: 1500-1900. Not only was Nicosia a bastion during the Crusades, but it has also shown its commitment to peace. Nicosia has not deployed soldiers in a combat role in decades. Furthermore, Nicosia has resisted ongoing pressure from its allies to build bases in Nicosia. This pressure to build bases has been in place since the mid 1980's. Actions of a puppet? No.

The Foreign Ministry has nothing to prove. An examination of military and political history will show that Nicosia has acted independently of its allies just as much as it has worked with them. The idea that EDF countries are constantly joined in lockstep is nothing less than amusing. Speculation by media continues to perpetuate this myth to fill pages or air time. We invite your media to continue as they clearly have a lack of other 'news'. Foreign governments choose to accuse the EDF of a mass puppetry and conspiracy possibly out of jealousy or fear. The fact is that the EDF is one of the few alliances that has not collapsed under its own weight.