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THE REPUBLIC TIMES​

2nd August 1956

DULWICH CONFERENCE QUESTIONS

LADY CHANCELLOR, ON THE PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS. From the Library of the Engellexian Republic Senate’s entries of yesterday we derive a summary of Lady Rosamund Cavendish, Duchess of Kew’s address on the Parliamentary Questions put to her on notable matters relating to companies interest and foreign policy, delivered at the sitting of the Engellexian Republic Senate on the 1st August.

After some formal business, the Lady Chancellor rose to answer a question by Lord Archibald Spencer relating to the Dulwich Conference of next week. The conference, of great importance but rarely reported on, will have assembled in the capital the highest representations from the Council of State, including the Lady Chancellor; the directors of thirteen companies of the greatest influence and importance in the Engellexian Republic – including the Lord Guarantors of the Engellexic Thaumantic Company, and the Engell-Himyar Trading Company; and also senior political representation from the Engell States of Himyar. The founding matters of the Dulwich Conference are the human commodity market, and the greater integration of democratic practices and institutions in the Engell States.

Lord Archibald Spencer questioned the Lady Chancellor on her adherence to the founding agenda, and whether the Dulwich Conference was restricted to a limited calendar. Lady Rosamund Cavendish said, she thought it was desirable that, before they separated, the representations should exchange their ideas upon various subjects which called for solution, and which it might be useful to take into consideration, with a view to prevent future complications. Although we will have had assembled for the special purpose of arranging the questions on the human commodity market and system, the Conference might, in her opinion, have to reproach itself if it were not to take advantage of the circumstances which had brought together so many representatives of the principal forces within, and belonging to the Engellexian Republic, to elucidate certain questions, lay down certain principles, and give utterance to certain sentiments - all with the sole object of assuring the continued social stability and economic prosperity of the Engellexian Republic by dispelling, while yet they were not too threatening, the clouds which might already be seen lowering in our horizon.

The question was followed by others pertaining to the potential crisis in Gallia, between Serenierre and Burgundy. It could not, she said, be denied, that Serenierre was in an abnormal situation. The brutal imposition of order to which that country had been subjected – notably the province of Arriere – had all the possibilities to compel the Grand Duchy of Burgundy to respond militarily in the foreseeable future, and at a time when their armies had no lack of employment elsewhere. The Conference is fully aware what was the state of Gallia at that moment. Moreover, the Conference could not be ignorant that the condition of that country, Serenierre, was far from satisfactory at the present time. It would not therefore be a proceeding without its utility if the forces represented in the Conference were to manifest a desire to see the Engellexian Republic Senate take into their mature consideration the deplorable situation of Gallia, and authorise the means to appropriate a responsible authority in the way of electing a Lord or Lady Protector of the Engellexian Republic. The Duchess of Kew did not doubt that the Duchess of Hammersmith, the Secretary of State of Foreign Departments, would concur with her in declaring that the Council of State was most anxiously looking forward to the moment when it might safely see an end to their occupation of the potential Gallian Crisis; but this they felt they could not do, so long as serious modifications were not made in the present state of things in Serenierre.

The Earl of Nomerset, Lord George Beckett, afterwards reminded the Engellexian Republic Senate that the Engell States were also in an abnormal situation. The necessity of not leaving those States a prey to anarchy should determine the Council of State to respond to the request of the Governor of Elephant and Castle in occupying the Engell State of Camden with Engellexic troops allowing the governor time to occupy the political process of the situation without concern of security. The Council of State, he said, had a double motive in deferring without hesitation to the requests of the Governor of Elephant and Castle, firstly, as an insurance against developing unrest; and second, the Engell State of Camden contained the greatest share of plantations and agricultural estates throughout the Engellexian Republic. The Lady Chancellor rose and responded, as the eldest of the Engell States, a title of which the Governor was most proud, the Council of State had made it a duty to give aid to the Governor of Elephant and Castle. But, further, the social stability of Camden, upon which depended the stability of all of the Engell States, was much too closely connected with the maintenance of economic order in the Engellexian Republic for the Council of State not to consider the Engell-Himyar Trading Company and the Engellexic Thaumantic Company as having an interest of the highest kind to assist, by all the means in their power, in the preservation of order in the Engell States. She fully saw how much, there was that was abnormal in the situation which had need of the support of Engellexic troops in order to maintain its authority.

The Duchess of Kew did not hesitate to declare, and she hoped that the Earl of Nomerset would say as much on the part of those within the senate who were concerned that he could understand, that the Council of State was not only ready to deploy Engellexic troops to Camden, but she desired that the time when it might do so without compromising the economic interests of the Engellexian Republic, in which the Council of State took so keenly an interest, might not be indefinitely postponed. It was most favourable, in the interest of the social stability of the Engellexian Republic, that the Engellexic forces should be enabled safely to reinforce the security of the Engell State of Camden. The Earl of Nomerset did not doubt that the frank expression of these sentiments on the part of her Grace, the Lady Chancellor would do good, and produce a favourable impression.

 

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THE LIBERTY HAMMER
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5th August 1956

COMPANY OVER THE REPUBLIC
Betrayal of the Republic's Parliament and Law; the moves for outright slavery.

By Lady Violet Bentincke, Baroness of Bow

Among independent and intelligent men there is but one opinion as to the conduct of the Governor of Elephant and Castle, the Engellexic Thaumantic Company, and the Engellexian Republic Parliament in the matter of the Camden and Mary-le-Bone Necessity, that is to say, the expansion of the human commodity market within the Engellexian Republic – or with more internationalist language, the slave trade. The behaviour of the first has been, under circumstances of great difficulty, courageous and without dignity, that of the second the overpowering of a hectoring bully, and that of the third none of these things.

Rarely has so great a slight been offered to the Engellexian Republic as on this occasion, and with the best intentions towards Lady Rosamund Cavendish, it cannot fail to be regretted that the conduct of the Chancellorship should have fallen into the hands of the Duchess of Kew who esteems a company interest above all things, even above honour and a loyal observance of the Republic’s legislation. When the conduct of the Duchess of Kew, under these economic and social circumstances, is contrasted with that of her predecessors who were to follow legislation on human commodity, it will be seen at what a long way off the Lady Chancellor does follow the law of the Republic. Those who bear no love to the Engellexian Republic Parliament, and their name is legion in Dulwich, do not attempt to conceal the fact that the grandest arrangement of a conference, the Dulwich Conference, simply to call upon for the deployment of Engellexic troops and possibly purchase, at a great discount, warships from the Engellexic Republic Navy to the Engell-Himyar Trading Company and the pre-emptive conduct towards the Gallic situation were intended to show the Engellexian Republic Parliament what a little store is now set upon the Engellexian Republic, and how completely subservient is the Council of State to the Lord Guarantors; not to mention the most pressing point of all, the economic and apparent social necessity for the expansion of the Engell Human Commodity Trade.

No one denies, except those unfortunates who are hired to do so, that the Engellexic Thaumantic Company is now expanding the slave-trade in a disguised form, though weakly disguised it remains. And it is boasted that, although the Engellexian Republic Parliament has spent three centuries forming, passing, and reforming legislation to establish limitations for a balanced economic system that utilises the human commodity, and has ensured such legislation is adopted and respected throughout the Engell States, yet the Engellexic Thaumantic Company moves to determine that Engell Himyar shall be supplied with a greater number of the human commodity than legally permitted, whether they be called slaves or commodity is of no moment a concern of the foundations of a respectable society in the Engell States.

The corporate fanaticism of the former Lord Guarantors in indulgences caused the separation of their former jurisdictions over Himyar holdings by the Republic; and there would be nothing surprising if the blunders of the current successors in trampling upon the laws of the Republic, the setting at naught the authority of nature and families, the impudent concoction of economic necessities, and the insolent charlatanism of the Engellexian Republic justice system should cut off the Engellexian Republic from the diseased system which has its centre in the profit margins of far too many companies in the Republic. I do not mean to say that we may shortly look for the wholesale conversion of the Engellexian Republic to absolute emancipation, although I conscientiously believe that were the Council of State, and especially the Duchess of Kew, free to preach the promises of such, its growth and development would be rapid beyond all measure; but it is evident to all men not blinded, by fanaticism that the Lord Guarantors should become separated more and more from their authorities, and this separation would be hailed with delight by the great majority of the population. It suits the purpose of the present Council of State to flatter the Lord Guarantors, and to affect great devotedness for their companies and products, for the sake of the support it receives in return. The members of the Council of State, and indeed those of the Engellexian Republic Senate, are looked upon as useful auxiliaries in maintaining this brutal economic order, and hence they are courted and encouraged in their inroads upon liberty; but the people, including all classes of society, are heartily sick of their discreet interests upon our Republican institutions, and of their tyranny in Himyar - even if the population still maintains support of the human commodity, it does not favour the Company over their Parliament.

In Elephant and Castle, The Southern Rose*, in answer, to an article in the The Red Republic** which has stung the Governor to the face, and proved that the Engell people are not participators in the cowardly abandonment of the laws of their most beloved Republic, came out yesterday morning with an article in which the proofs of guilt are suppressed in the most barefaced manner possible. What was true the official paper suppresses, what is false it prints. It would not be profitable, but simply nauseating, to wade through the string of falsehoods. Nothing is said about the human commodity arriving at Elephant and Castle docklands with their hands shackled behind their backs, in the illegal hundreds, nothing, of the admissions of Governor House, but this impudent conclusion - the human commodity had been carried to the Southern Himyar metropolis to be there entered into the exchange (Elephant and Castle Man Commodity Exchange) as authorised per sentencing of their criminal activities. The Governor of Elephant and Castle with his administration in Governor House, who from the commencement neglected no effort to enlighten that of the Engellexic Republic House of Commons on their manufactured character of this affair, hoped that the Parliamentary Committees, after having examined all the circumstances of the sentencing from Engellexic courts, and the documents relative to the proceedings at Elephant and Castle, would be anxious to dismiss the irregularities of that commodity market as undertaken by the Governor of that Engell State towards the vessels from the Engellexic Thaumantic Company with the suspicion of being engaged in the illegal expansion of the slave commodity market.

Their hope was at first encouraging, for the Lord Guarantor; but the Commons Committee of Man Commodity, brought back by a more attentive examination to their more exact applications, has given serious cause of doubt to the first representations of the Governor and the ETC. A determination to conform to the rule of Republican law, in causing the questioning of the trace of misintelligence between the Company and the Engell State authorities, will have for effect, we do not doubt, to deteriorate to the relation of the cordial character they had before this regrettable incident.

However, and more frustratingly so.

The Commons Committee of Man Commodity has been compelled by the abandonment of her government – the Council of State - to restore an outright attempted slaver and her commercial assets to liberty, and to pay an indemnity for having taken them in pursuance of the the law of the Engellexian Republic. It must not be forgotten that this attempted slaver was summoned, with concerned assets frozen, in pursuance of stipulations made by the Engellexian Republic Parliament, to the law of the Republic, to prevent the outright expansion of the slave trade.

One must ask, given the seriousness of the ETC and the Council of State above the law of the Republic, what can one anticipate from the Dulwich Conference next week?

[[OOC: *The Southern Rose is a nationalistic publication in Engell Himyar in support of the human commodity system and for the outright return of the slave trade. **The Red Republic is a far left publication from Angellex, which seeks to abolish the human commodity system.]]

 

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THE REPUBLIC TIMES​

18th SEPTEMBER 1956

PELASGIAN EMPEROR THREATENS WAR
THE MIGHTY PELASGIAN EMPIRE AND THE INSOLENT LITTLE REPUBLIC

The Imperial Court of Propontis has decided that there shall be no peace with Engellex. This war is to be carried with vigour. This is the latest position from the throne of the Emperor of Pelasgia, and the full details of his public statement against the Engellexian Republic and her democracy can be found on page three, alongside the strongly worded attack upon the Republic by the Kingdom of Eiffelland. Nothing but the greatest expression of satisfaction should be felt, to observe the candour of the Emperor of Pelasgia in disclosing his regard, intentions and absolute ignorance; and more especially should this publication offer this acknowledgement, because it has lately been urged in Dulwich that the Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments altogether misconceived and misunderstood the position of the Pelasgian Empire in respect of democracy and civil rights; as though it was not at all a position of intended offence to the Engellexian Republic, or to be aggressive upon the rights and freedoms of men and women, but rather an honest and brutal attempt at imperial preservation, mistaken we were.

The Emperor of the Pelasgian Empire has been particularly forward in his endeavour to inspire a belief in the minds of Engells throughout Europe that the recent diplomatic proceeding was a mere matter of insolence and misunderstanding of rightful place, on the part of the Engellexian Republic, and affecting only the apparent false social conscience of the Republic as no nation dared express equal dismay at the social progress within the Pelasgian Empire; the terms that had occasioned so much diplomatic excitement being only in accordance with the characteristic grandiose and overstated sense of national importance with which it has ever been the unfortunate and deplorable habit of the Engellexian Republic; where even the democratically elected Leader of the Engellexian Republic Parliament – the First and Absolute authority of the Republic, where the fount of the Republic’s Sovereignty lies, should not perceive that he is of any position to so much as address a letter to the Emperor of Pelasgia, with the mere concept of such is considered repugnant. For the part of the Engellexian Republic Parliament, especially more so within the Bare Commons, it is being observed that the popular course of response is to simply decline to accept the explanations, the contempt held within the letter of his Imperial Majesty of Pelasgia. It has appeared to many within our honourable legislature, and indeed by many throughout the Republic, that a frustrated first attempt to embarrass the sense and principles of this Republic, was sought to be covered with an attempt to overbear the same sense and principles of this Republic through outright ridicule, hatred and naked threats of war against the Engellexian Republic and the Engell people – in Gallia-Germania and Himyar.

That many within this country were right in so thinking, the Engell-Pelasgian diplomatic papers, published in this newspaper, establish.

The assertion of desiring a warmer relationship in the future was dishonesty of the highest order; for those desires of a Engell-Pelasgian relationship grow from the Imperial Propontine Determination which has just been issued from the Imperial Palace at Propontis, and in its accompanying hope, of the Engellexian Republic, for the absolute subjugation of both the Senate and the Bare Commons of the Engellexian Republic Parliament, to raise and inspire acceptance of vassalage of Dulwich, where from a more active aggression upon Atheist and Republican principles, Engell freedom, the conscientious belief of Engells, and the prerogatives of the Sovereignty of the Republic, may be made than Pelasgian officers of Officialdom in Dulwich and Propontis, are currently capable of. There is no mincing of the matter. The Imperial Count of Propontis is not wise to disguise its meaning. The Engellexian Republic is to be persuaded or violently forced into the Imperial Pelasgian Domain, and, Atheism and Republicanism being put at defiance. What the Emperor of Pelasgia has achieved now, much against his evident intention:- Atheism and Republicanism united, Engellexian Republic Parliament and Engell people united, Gallia-Germania and Himyar united, as the single Sovereign and cultural entity the Emperor declared non-existent, all in protestation against the usurpation of Sovereignty and Peace jealously held by the Republic; but the Emperor of Pelasgia, assuming his Divine Right as a Crowned Head to put the Republic, the Parliament, and Engell people into a corner, as froward children, for contempt, if not correction, addresses the Engellexian Republic Parliament as though a mere public institution of rebellion, as if the Emperor of Pelasgia really was what he himself pleases to say he himself is – above the Engellexian Republic Parliament; the protestation of the Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments, and the Address of the Republic, demonstrating the forward and civilising position of the Engellexian Republic.

Engellex is treated precisely as her revolutionary forefathers said it would be. They said that the Monarchical and Religious Governments of Europe would treat Acts of the Republic as mere waste paper; they said that the Crowned Heads in Europe would turn over the positions and enactments of the Engellexian Republic Parliament as we turn over oranges or pottles of strawberries, rejecting what they pleased, with no more concern about the democratic institutions of the Republic, or the free citizens within her borders, than we show to the orangeman or the strawberry vendor. What use of all the long, and animated and, sometimes, angry discussions that has taken place? The Emperor of Pelasgia and his Imperial Ministers ignore the Engellexian Republic Parliament, as they before ignored the movement of democracy; as they first, in effect, denied the existence of Republicanism and Atheism, so they now proceed, as if the Engellexian Republic Parliament was a mere assemblage of impertinent children, whose proceedings it were unbecoming the gravity and dignity of the Empire of Pelasgia to recognise or take account of. The Engellexian Republic, according to the statement issued by the Pelasgian Emperor, is an irrelevance. The Engellexian Republic Parliament and the Council of State, with all that they have said and done, are utterly dismissed – they are considered nice, whose opinion might be taken about the details or niceties of certain agricultural productions, but they must not presume to interfere with the Empire of Pelasgia when its Emperor is disposed to oppress his own Imperial Subjects. The Imperial Crown of Pelasgia overrules the Sovereignty of the Republic. It is a poor, weak, insolent Republic, that makes a noise about things it does not understand; and it is threatened by consequences of war which the Republic cannot hope to be sufficiently powerful enough to defend against. The patience and tolerance of the Empire of Pelasgia alone sustains the independence of this Republic. The Engellexian Republic Parliament can do nothing without the will of the Imperial Court in Propontis. The Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments can do nothing – the Lady Chancellor can do nothing – the Senate and Bare Commons can do nothing – the multitudinous people, in town and country, in capital and villages, have declared entire allegiance to the Sovereignty of their Republic, and perfect resolution to defend her Constitution, and in doing so moves to secure to every man and woman in Europe the right of conscience, freedom to think, to judge, to participate in democratic process, to live in liberty – but they can do nothing without the grace of Pelasgia, and in the absence of the goodwill of the Pelasgian gentlemen who constitute the Imperial Court of Propontis.

THE POSITION OF THE REPUBLIC : GALLIA-GERMANIA AND HIMYAR

The fever, or threatening sentiment of war is regarded within the Republic as a petty distraction worthy of the desperation of a panicked dictatorship facing its own decline. Even the Duke of Nonsuch, Lord Edward Harrington, speaking as the Senator of Nonsuch stated within the Engellexian Republic Senate that there is no other cause or pretext for a grave rupture of the peaceful relations between the two countries; the settlement of demand recalling the Ambassador of the Republic to Propontis would be sufficient. The Duke of Nonsuch repeated that the diplomatic dispute offers no real cause or pretext for a serious quarrel, believing the Empire of Pelasgia of no true significance to the prosperity and independence of the Republic, where an alarming escalation would simply provide the wanted distraction that the Imperial Court so desperately requires for her own domestic purposes. I implore my fellow Senators of the Republic to not take it for granted that so stupendous a folly as war cannot be perpetrated against or by the Engellexian Republic in the middle of the twentieth century.

To now venture upon a statement of the truth of which this publication is thoroughly persuaded, and which it is hoped may have some influence upon the policy of the Republic, and indeed the Empire of Pelasgia. Nothing has been said on the subject in any of the other publications and it is of such importance that it could scarcely be known without producing a very marked effect.

Lord Henry Swann-Pryce, the Governor of Elephant and Castle in the Engell State of Camden, is an acute, cunning, and astute man. He has for some time had his eye upon a political opportunity. Just this morning it had emerged from the Lady Chancellor within the Senate that a letter of instructions had been sent to herself and the Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments, to guide the Council of State in the course Dulwich was expected to take towards the Imperial Court of Propontis. This publication is enabled to state that of the instructions that went out within the letter, those to the effect that the Governor’s Council and the House of Burgesses agree to themselves being in concurrence with the Office of the Governor of Elephant and Castle that the Engell State of Camden would be disposed to make common cause with the Council of State in Dulwich in the event that a collision with the Empire of Pelasgia should occur.

It is well known within the political domain of the Republic that Elephant and Castle has flattered the vanity of Dulwich, both the Parliament and the Council of State, by exceptional proffers to the one, and extraordinary favour and courtesy to the other. The Establishment within Elephant and Castle has for a long time felt and displayed a strong sympathy with or manifested a strong regard for the Mother Republic. It is easy to comprehend the reasoning of all this in today’s context. First, Camden has the ambition of becoming an expanding a dominant State and Power in Himyar – of solidifying the sphere and power of Engell Himyar under its dominion. It is well known that this is a shared ambition with Dulwich, accompanied by the fact that is also equally known that the Engellexian Republic Parliament has been quite interested in asserting itself as a Great Power of the Occident – the First Republic Power. This feeling alone gave origin to what is now denominated the First Republic doctrine; as demonstrated by the Emperor of Pelasgia’s address, other nations do not comprehend the assertion as the First Republic – there exists no claim that Engellex was the First Republic, rather that Engellex is the First Republic, ahead and above all. It matters nothing to Camden that each are on different positions within Europe, one – Engellex being of the Old Occident, nor does it matter to Engellex that Camden is at the other side, which represents the New Occident. To thicken the circumstance, it was also explained to both the Senate and the Bare Commons that there were letters from the Governors of both Babbage and Henrietta informing the Engellexian Republic Parliament of their support for this policy on the part of Engellex and Camden.

For now, the Lord Speaker and Keeper of the Engellexian Republic Parliament, Lord Thomas Bartlett, Viscount Bartlett, has resigned himself and Office from forming any further Address of the Republic to the Imperial Court of Propontis, stating that nothing can be achieved by words, that would not have already been achieved by the words given previously. But before any processions of apparent victory are announced for Propontis, it should be carefully noted that the Lord Speaker and Keeper, as supported by both the Senate and Bare Commons through majority vote, has moved to form a Grand Committee of the Republic. How this Grand Committee will be formed is yet to be determined, it is expected however to comprise an appropriate representation of persons belonging to the Senate, the Bare Commons, and those from the legislatures of the Engell States, as well as representation from the Council of State. It’s stated purpose? To Consider and Stress the Position of the Empire of Pelasgia in Consideration of the Interests of the Engellexian Republic (title). The due process and system of the Republic is aligning its canons for a spectacular broadside against Engell-Pelasgian relations, and nobody expects anything less.

With respect to the diplomatic attack by the Government of Eiffelland, the Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments has formally petitioned the Lord Speaker and Keeper to formally summon the Eiffellandian ambassador to stand before a Joint Committee of the Senate and the Bare Commons to answer for the diplomatic correspondence from their government in the most appropriate manner.

 

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Our ambassador to Engellex, Dr. Heinz-Otto Bächler, will answer all the questions the Joint Committee of the Senate and the Bare Commons have. However, should the Senate and the Bare Commons consider this a trial rather than a hearing, we would formally object.

Rudolph Kögler, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Vice-Chancellor

 

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THE LIBERTY HAMMER
DAILY NATIONAL PUBLICATION FROM HAMMERSMITH​

27th September 1956

GRAND COMMITTEE READIED
The Chairman and Board for the Grand Committee of the Republic appointed.

Speaker of the Bare Commons, Lady Abigail Landingham, addressed assembled members of the Bare Commons on the Grand Committee of the Republic, stating that she believed it right to inform members of the Bare Commons that the Chairwoman of the Parliamentary Procedures Joint Committee, by the advice of those majority of the joint committee, has appointed Howard Stackhouse, the Member for Poplar North, as Chairman of the Grand Committee of the Republic, and also a board of members inclusive of the Senate and Bare Commons in equal measure to inquire into certain matters which were determined by the Engellexian Republic Parliament in moving for the Grand Committee. The Chairman and his Board are to receive explanations on the subject of the complaints and curiosities made respecting the relations of the Engellexian Republic and the Pelasgian Empire, and the process in which the Foreign Departments conduct and manage the abroad interests of this Republic.

Patrick Dillon, Member for Earl’s Court, addressed the Speaker, declaring that the step now being taken by the Engellexian Republic Parliament was one which was gravely necessary. The moment Republic news publications received and published the response of the Imperial Minister of Foreign Affairs to the statement by the Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments, the natural and proper course for the Bare Commons and, indeed, the Senate to have adopted would have been to order a Joint Parliamentary Review of correspondence by the joint Foreign Affairs Committee. The position in which the Lord Speaker and Keeper of the Engellexian Republic Parliament had been placed, as a result of not adopting the course I just spoke, was one of great uncertainty and potential embarrassment. Lord Thomas Bartlett (the Viscount Bartlett – the Lord Speaker and Keeper) is obliged to hear the obloquy of public opinion, and to redress the grievances of the Republic directly by his position. It was a state of thing derogatory to the Engellexian Republic Parliament and dangerous to the position of the Republic domestically and abroad; the Lord Speaker and Keeper having assumed the position of the Republic’s most trusted and respected person, and placed under the accountability to the Senate, the Bare Commons, and the Citizenry of the Republic all in equal measure, he had that absolute right to expect and to receive in return that degree of honesty and full disclosure from the offices of those members of the Council of State, most especially the Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments. I wish to express no opinion as to the conduct of the Lord Speaker and Keeper, or his office, the conduct of the Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments, or any matter of detail which had escalated the disagreeable circumstance of Engell-pelasgian relations; but I do express the opinion that the course generally pursued with regard to potential human rights abuses in Pelasgia was for the Grand Committee of the Republic to inquire as a matter of urgency.

Ainsley Babish, Member for Epsom Forest, responded to the Member for Earl’s Court, by suggesting that if the Honourable Member for Earl’s Court had made himself acquainted with the circumstances of the diplomatic exchanges he would not have not made his reply respecting the position of the Lord Speaker and Keeper. The Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments was not in a position to truly disclose the information the Engellexian Republic Parliament now possesses, because the bureaucracy of the Foreign Departments had prevented the efficiency of communication between itself and the Office of the Lord Speaker and Keeper. The request made to the Lord Speaker and Keeper for a diplomatic clarification, an Address of the Republic, was by the Permanent Secretary to the Secretary of State with papers relating to published correspondence, rather than official papers from the Foreign Departments; it was not ever the intention of the Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments to request the Lord Speaker and Keeper to formulate an Address of the Republic to the Imperial Court of Propontis based on judgements made, by himself and his office, on essentially news publication clippings. The Grand Committee of the Republic, it should be widely acknowledged across the ideological divide, was formed to inquire into the most peculiar circumstances of diplomatic affairs of this Republic, in all probability of its history. The Foreign Departments was informed that the Grand Committee, and indeed the Senate and Bare Commons, would rely very much on the official papers of the diplomatic exchanges, and internal, classified papers respecting the state of things in Pelasgia. It is therefore certainly unfortunate, and without any intention, that the situation should prove embarrassing to the Lord Speaker and Keeper.

Mary Hayes, Member for Henrietta South, wished to know whether the Chairman and Board of the Grand Committee were to examine witnesses, the greater part, if not all, of whom belong within the Foreign Departments, and especially the Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments. She believed that a report founded on evidence taken purely from official papers, and not inclusive of oral evidence from witnesses summoned by the Grand Committee, would be unsatisfactory. The Speaker, Lady Abigail Landingham, confirmed that the Chairman and the Board would have the power of calling witnesses before them.

THE CAMDENITE TRIUMPH
At the Henrietta Regatta

The Camden has beaten the yachts which started against her for the Republic Yacht Squadron Cup of £1000 value in the most complete and triumphant manner. Until within the last few days no Engellexic man or woman ever dreamed that anyone outside Engellex could produce a yacht with the least pretensions to match the efforts of Blackshore, Pound, Gosford, and other eminent builders. In the Yacht List for this very year there is an assertion which every man within sight of sea-water from North End to Henrietta would swear to, that yacht building was an art in which Angellex and Gewissex (Engellex) was unrivalled, and that she was distinguished pre-eminently and alone for the perfection of science in handling them. As the day of the Republic Yacht Squadron’s grand match drew near the entries became numerous, and 1956 will be celebrated for the largest number of starters for the Derby and for the £1000 cup respectively, that were ever known.

The following yachts were entered; the figures representing the order in which they were placed from Fort Henrietta, number one being the nearest. They were moored in a double line :-

Abigail, schooner – 161 tons – Sir R. A. Rolland
Liberty, cutter – 48 tons – Lady Elizabeth Ackers
Rose, cutter – 84 tons – Sir P. I. Paget
Wyvern, schooner – 205 tons – Sir G. E. Langely
Eagle, schooner – 75 tons – Sir H. K. Rodgers
Clarencia, schooner - 218 tons – Duke of Clarence
Southern Belle, schooner – 160 tons – Sir J. E. Andrews
Gloriana, cutter – 193 tons – Duchess of Kew
White, cutter – 82 tons – Sir W. S. Thomas
Camden, schooner – 170 tons – Baron of Frognal
Volta, 3-mast schooner – 393 – Lady Harriet Astor
Tridentia, cutter – 80 tons – Sir F. F. Foley
Immortal, cutter – 60 tons – Sir W. P. Lyman
Otho, cutter – 50 tons – Earl of Eam
Freedom, cutter – 4 tons – Lady Catherine Nancy​

At 10 o’clock the signal cannon for sailing was fired, and before the smoke had well cleared away the whole of the beautiful fleet was under weigh, moving steadily to the east with the tide and a gentle breeze. The start was feected splendidly, the yachts breaking away like a field of racehorses; the only laggard was the Camden, which did not move for a second or so after the others. Yachts of all sizes buzzed along on each side of the course, and spread away for miles over the rippling waters of the Clarencian Sea. The Southern Belle, with all her canvass set and in the strength of the tide, took the lead after starting, with the Abigail next, and then, with little difference in it, the Volta, Clarencia, Rose, and a flock of others. The Camden went easily for some time under mainsail, foresail, and jib; while her opponents had every cloth set that the club regulations allowed. She soon began to creep upon them, passing some of the cutters to windward. In a quarter of an hour she had left them all behind, except the Clarencia, Abigail, and the Southern Belle, which were well together, and west along smartly with the light breeze. Once or twice the wind freshened a little, and at once the Camden gathered way, and passed ahead of the Clarencia and the Abigail. Another puff came and she made a dart to pass the Southern Belle, but the wind left her sails, and the little Volta came skimming past her with a stupendous jib, swallowing up all wind that blowing. As the glorious pageant passed under the promenade and boardwalk of Henrietta the sight was surpassing and fine, the whole expanse of sea from shore to shore being filled as it were with a countless fleet, while the dark hull of the ERS Black Leviathan, the last battleship of the Republic Navy and flagship of the Henrietta Admiralty, in the distance at Nolland Bay, towered in fine relief above the tiny little craft that danced around her – the distant mountains west of Henrietta, the magnificently skyward skyline of Henrietta, and the gold and turquoise coast of Mary-le-Bone, forming a fine framework for the picture.

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28th October 1956

GRAND COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION
The Continuation of the Grand Committee beyond 1956; the Consideration of the First Reports from the Grand Committee.

Every citizen of the Engellexian Republic is of mind admitting, that the object of the Grand Committee of the Republic, which was, to inquire into the irregularities and potential abuses connected with the Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments and certainly the Foreign Departments itself, is certainly most desirable. The persons appointed had, in the months they had been in office, pursued the enquiry with an industry and integrity deserving the highest approbation; and their merit was established beyond the necessity of further proof, by the reports they had already laid on the tables of the Engellexian Republic Senate and the Engellexian Republic Bare Commons. At this moment they were still actively continuing their investigation, and they had yet much to do. The duration of the act by which the Grand Committee held its powers was uncertain. The act of the Engellexian Republic Parliament might put an end to it in a moment, by proroguing the Engellexian Republic Parliament for seasonal festivities. The duration of the act was fixed, at its passing for the remainder of the year 1956. If the Senate and the Bare Commons meets, as in the usual course, before the 16th December, the act would have the opportunity to be held in force for the duration of next year. It was probably in the contemplation of both the Senate and the Bare Commons, at the time of the enactment, to afford an opportunity for the renewal of the act, if it should be thought advisable, by allowing the whole of a session of the Engellexian Republic Parliament to make a motion to that effect, in addition to the greater part of the session in which the expiration was likely to take place.

Patrick Dillon, the Member for Earl’s Court in the Bare Commons, made a motion thus early in today's session, stating that because the Grand Committee was issued by a joint act of the Senate and Bare Commons as the highest tier of the constituent assemblies within the Engellexian Republic Parliament, and if those two assemblies should think it necessary to continue it, they may be on their guard to do so before the action of a minister, or another, would deprive it of the power. He was not disposed, in cases of this kind to place much confidence in politicians. The change that had taken place in respect to the affairs of Europe, though it had not produced much vigour domestically, had introduced much boldness. Another reason why he put himself forward on this subject so early was, that ministers of the Council of State on the subject of introducing legislation to affect the allocation of estimates for a naval expansion, which they described as so necessary and important, had shown so little vigilance as to render it unavoidably necessary to break through the forms of the Senate to hurry the formation bill through, before the Engellexian Republic Parliament could take sight at the seasoned departures.

In the Senate, Lords and Ladies in consideration of the Grand Committee, recited the objects which the Commissioners of the Grand Committee were empowered to inquire into. The highest departments of the Foreign Departments were the principal. Of these the Office of the Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments had not been yet attended to. The Department of the Permanent Secretaries was much considered in the second report that was before the Senate, but not completely examined. The correspondence of the ambassador to Propontis was described in the first report laid on the tables, the greatest of its volumes had not yet been in any way noticed; nor the Office of the First Permanent Secretary, the correspondence of the First Permanent Secretary, nor the correspondence of the Secretary of State. Thus a great part of the task imposed on the Grand Committee of the Republic remained yet unexecuted. It was impossible that in the remaining duration of the session this remnant of the proposed labour could be gone through before its close. Much inconvenience would result from its non-continuance, which lie proposed to remedy by moving to continue it through to the next session, when, if its further continuance was necessary, another motion of the same nature may be made.

Those who supported the appointment of the Grand Committee were now called upon to vote for its continuance; and even those who opposed it, seeing the advantages that had resulted from the inquiry, were equally bound to give it full effect. The Foreign Departments were to be considered a granting under the Grand Seal of Parliament to consider what remedies should be adopted for the irregularities discovered by the Chairman and his Commissioners of enquiry, proved that the Foreign Departments was not adequate to the inquiry, as it was formerly urged by some, for as those of the Grand Committee stated, that the Foreign Departments was too much occupied to undertake even the secondary supervision there specified. Many thought it not quite respectful to the Senate, and indeed the Bare Commons, to appoint, without any communication, remedies by and through the Foreign Departments, to act upon the reports of a Grand Committee appointed by the Engellexian Republic Parliament.

The predecessor of the Lord Speaker and Keeper, had said within the Senate, it was intended to submit to the Senate and Bare Commons distinct propositions on the reports. The abandonment of this plan, and the proposal of the Foreign Departments conducting rememedies, many looked upon as disrepectful to the Engellexian Republic Parliament. If the motion for the continuation of the act was not assented to, it would be seen, that there was in some interested quarters a determination to resist reform. It was most notorious, that great irregularities existed in all departments of the Foreign Departments; and those who made notoriety the ground for pushing through the formation legislation for naval estimates, could not deny it as a ground for the continuance of this Grand Committee. The Member for Earl’s Court, Patrick Dillon, concluded today with moving, for leave to bring in a bill to continue the act appointing a Grand Committee of the Republic to Consider and Stress the Position of the Empire of Pelasgia in Consideration of the Interests of the Engellexian Republic. The motion secured a majority of one-hundred-sixty-three within the Bare Commons.

 

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29th October 1956

FIRST REPUBLIC NAVAL PROGRAMME

The First Republic Naval Programme was returned to the Engellexian Republic Parliament, both the Senate and the Bare Commons, today with thirty-minutes allocated in the Bare Commons for a more than passing review of the necessities being advocated by the Council of State and the Republic Naval Council.

Sir Benjamin Richmond, the First Lord of the Bank of Aldwych and the senior minister of the Council of State within the Bare Commons, quoted the Secretary of State of the Chancellery, Lady Rosamund Cavendish the Duchess of Kew, as having said in her speech to the Senate that should the warmongering Powers of Europe (it is generally understood that the Lady Chancellor refers to the Pelasgian Empire, Kadikistan, and the Socialist World Republic) remain convinced of their own strength a war, or a series of wars in Europe could not be avoided. He asked that the Engellexian Republic’s Naval Estimates should immediately be voted, before the end of 1956, to be increased to £750 millions ($2.1 billions) in order to build and upgrade the required warships. Sir Benjamin Richmond added that additional estimates will be put to the Senate and Bare Commons for the upgrades necessary to port facilities through the Public Works Estimates, due to them possessing commercial characteristics also. Caroline Spencer, Member for Clapham East, who nevertheless has often objected to anything related defence measures of the Republic and has a cult following amongst her constituents in the leafy, bohemian suburbs of her constituency, objected to the Council of State’s programme for new warships. It would mean an additional tens, if not hundred-millions sterling to the Naval Estimates. The money would be simply thrown away, because those Powers you refer would undoubtedly seeks to meet the challenge by expenditure on an equal or larger scale. The Pelasgian Empire already affords a greater distance ahead of the Republic in this regard. Do we truly wish to see the Republic join those nations that spends extravagant sums of citizen’s monies on public expenditure?

George Jefferson, Member for Black Common and Permanent Under-Secretary to the Angelleaux-at-Arms, thought the public, and parliament more so, expected too much from too much of the present Republic Navy. Our cruisers are quite obsolete, given the advancements in missile technology. They are unfit for service, and it would be idle to expect gaining through them the mastery of the seas. I would even hazard that the Republic has more all-gun cruisers than any other Navy in Europe. It is therefore imperative that the Engellexian Republic Bare Commons votes for either six guided-missile cruisers, or the refitting of the entire fleet of current cruisers – which is ten – to possess that capability. George Jefferson continued with his support for the programme, arguing the urgency of the refitting of the current fifteen Thaumantic Class Submarines and building of ten more, a compromise he argued that had been reached within the Republic Naval Council against a phased scrapping and building of an entirely new class. The submarine was a splendid warship, and the Republic could certainly not afford to remain behind in such field. He also argued that the Republic Navy was deficient in fleet and light carriers, though it possessed two of the former. They remain the absolute essential requisites for offensive warfare, whether in Gallia-Germania, South Himyar, or in more distant seas. They should be powerfully equipped with full squadrons of Republic Fury jet aircraft of the Air Fleet. Air supremacy was the advantage needed in war of this century, we need these warships as the Republic Naval Council asserts the urgency of being able to deploy five carrier fleets in defence of our sovereign territory, and two light carrier commando groups in offensives for our preservation. Our naval experts were unanimous in their approval for three additional Republic Rose Class Carriers, and two new light carriers of designs belonging to Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries.

Sir Benjamin Richmond continued the Council of State’s position within the Bare Commons, asking for six new mine laying vessels, and fifteen new mine sweeping vessels; ten new LST vessels and ten new LCU boats. He also stated that in response to the probably opposition to estimates being requested, the Republic Naval Council again compromised on the other more significant areas of the First Republic Naval Programme. In anticipation of scrutiny and want of efficient monies spent and strength possession within our Republic Navy, it was agreed that rather than advocate the absolute scrapping of our present squadrons of destroyers, with replacements of a modernised class, the programme will involve the scrapping of the oldest destroyers in service, with their replacement of the construction of new warships of a new class. In doing so, the number of destroyers belonging to the Republic Navy will decrease from sixty-three, to fifty. In a similar proposition, our squadrons of frigates would see an increase in their number of twenty, to a total of eighty, all of a new class. This was in part due to the Republic Naval Council’s desire to create a fourth fleet, designated the Second Thaumantic Fleet, based within Angellex and acting as a Swift Naval Response Fleet, with both defensive and offensive capabilities in mind. The Council of State’s programme, however, was a beginning for the Engellexian Republic. A mistake was made following the 1920s of doing nothing, in many respects of domestic and foreign policy; the Lady Chancellor has moved to remedy our ills through this programme, and more so through the Dulwich Conference which will be addressed to the Engellexian Republic Parliament soon.

Sir Benjamin Richmond, responding to conservative critics, who found the First Republic Naval Programme insufficient, said that the programme put to parliament was already in the arena of being quite ambitious. Shipbuilders of the Republic are at present unable to execute this programme in its entirety, which is why much of it is phased and with priorities allocated; such as priority given to the carriers requested, and the options for guided-missile cruisers; our destroyers and frigates will be attended to as industrial capacity is found, same will be stated for the submarines; the other vessels are of such size and general simplicity of design that they can be executed immediately in the remainder of the medium to small shipyards throughout the Republic. The decisions made on estimates for Public Works will determine exactly are timely this programme will be, and be a casting judgement on a future expansion of this, said programme.

The debate was adjourned until next week, when two sessions will be allocated in the Bare Commons, and a vote taken.

 

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10th November 1956

THE RESIGNATION
The resignation of the Lady Chancellor; the dissolution of the Council of State; a coming Grand Election.

The session of the Engellexian Republic Senate lasted no more than three hours, and at the conclusion of it, Lady Rosamund Cavendish proceeded to deliver her resignation to the Speaker of the Senate – an act tantamount to the resignation of the whole of the Council of State. The tone of the Council of State Crisis session within the Senate, held on Tuesday, had been extremely interrogative. The first effect of the dissolution of the Council of State was to induce the Lord Speaker and Keeper of the Engellexian Republic Parliament, by the advice of the Senate majority, to send for the Speaker of the Senate and the Speaker of the Bare Commons, with the intention to proceed with the instrument to organising a new election of a Lord or Lady Chancellor. The Speakers proceeded to obey the command of the Lord Speaker and Keeper.

It will be four years since the Duke of Nonsuch conceded his defeat to the Duchess of Kew for the keys to the Chancellery, in the Grand Election 1952. Yet, so small was the event of 1952, so limited is its reach to top the ordinary achievements of legislation since, and so weak is its tide of consequences, that it rapidly is becoming a dim memory as the details of that event recede from us in time and out of disinterest. The wounds of that struggle are still raw, however, and the ashes still glow under the feet of the Republic. There are those that still speak and act as if the questions made during the Grand Election 1952 were still pending, and the verdict unpronounced. It is very natural then, that we should forget the real length of Lady Rosamund Cavendish’s administration. She has not been cut off so prematurely as some appear to imagine, in fact, she has had almost a usual tenure of power – very nearly as long as the majority of those who held that position from the beginning of the twentieth century, with only two exceptions. Since the Republic entered the twentieth century the majority of Lord or Lady Chancellors have not retained office for more than one term, which is five years. Judging, therefore, by the analogy of the past, it is reasonable to inquire whether Lady Rosamund Cavendish has not run out her spell, and whether those congenital ills that exist in the constitution of every administration have not in this instance, as in all others, done their fated work.

Lady Rosamund Cavendish has done very little more than continue on her predecessor’s designs. She has been the executor, or rather the trustee, of the political estate of the capitalist class, following the political disability of her predecessor. She had inherited the free trade, and rested on the staff of low income tax. In the remaining months of the sitting of 1952, she did little more, and could do little more, than add to the general taxation a modification of the duties of a number of produces by way of their pointed reduction, that had long been foreseen by those who had observed the Duchess of Kew in the Senate, but much to the frustration of the Companies and workers of the Republic. In 1955 she claimed and received a double indulgence; first, for doing little else than Himyar relief; secondly, for administering it according to the necessities of the hour. The language in everybody’s mouth was, that a gigantic task had to be performed, and nothing should be omitted to strengthen the hands charged with its execution. Not only originality, but even the commonest principle and the expected respects of the office of the Chancellery, were laid aside in the empty and deplorably lacking operation of meeting the various circumstances that constituted the General Struggle 1955. Since that, there has been hardly a considerable measure which the Duchess of Kew would have volunteered time and political will. It was stated often and with regularity within the Senate that the necessities of the Council of State’s endeavour were taxation (low), the strengthening of the rights of employers; and while much of the sitting of 1955 was devoted to nurturing the neutrality and isolation of the Republic from the Gallian-Germanian continent and its ills, an equal part of the last sitting (1956) was pent in yielding a tardy obedience to that position.

For four years we have all been accustomed to absence of movement. One task deemed of little importance to the Council of State, followed by the next, and the exigency has been so manifest as scarcely to allow any diversity of opinion to this. The cry of the Lady Chancellor has ever been – preservation of the Republic. Lady Rosamund Cavendish is no longer alone in that cry, the rest of the Republic has joined her it. The Lord Governor of Elephant and Castle arrived at the Dulwich Conference with it, for the deplorable expansions of revolutionary and imperialist enterprise were at hand, the Duke of Nonsuch and his factions were also joined with their fury, and the Council of the Republic was laying violent siege to the antipathy of the Council of State. That cry was redoubled in the last two months following the Dulwich Conference, when every good citizen rallied round the letters of the Conference, when the Council of State became a theatrical disorder, and a crisis was dreaded as the first step of the new era of First Republicanism.

The Speakers of the Senate and Bare Commons, in obedience to the command of the Lord Speaker and Keeper, proceeded to Colours Court, the official residence of the Lord Speaker and Keeper, at an early hour on Wednesday morning, and had an audience with his Lordship. The two Speakers returned to their offices at 12 o’clock to deliver the instruments permitting the Senate and Bare Commons to vote for the re-formation of a Grand Election Committee. At 2 o’clock the Lord Speaker and Keeper received the results of the voting within the Senate and Bare Commons, and having accepted their majorities in support – it remains an unwritten custom that the two chambers return a majority in support – addressed letters to the constituent assemblies of the constituent republics that they may proceed in forming their conventions, to nominate candidates for the Lord or Lady Chancellorship.

 

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11th November 1956

EVIDENCE AGAINST THE DUCHESS OF HAMMERSMITH
The Foreign Affairs Joint Committee locates and submits key evidence to the Grand Commitee.

The Duke of Nonsuch moved to bring the attention of the Senate to the submission of the letters between the Office of the Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments and the Office of the Lord Speaker and Keeper in relation to the diplomatic crisis with the Pelasgian Empire. He stated that he did not intend to waste time in desultory remarks upon the criticism laid by others in the Senate and the Bare Commons, though he expressed that it was remarkable that the Duchess of Hammersmith (former Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments) said that the First Permanent Secretary acted with due respect and honesty in carrying out the tasks and business of his office, when the Duchess of Hammersmith attributed the confusion, if not absolute failure, of the Foreign Departments in this instance to the assumption of unwarrantable authority by a civil servant subordinate to her. The Duke of Nonsuch spoke of himself not having claim to pass an opinion on the Duchess of Hammersmith’s criticism of senior civil servants of the Foreign Departments, but he will remark upon the action of the former Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments in the submission of the letter between her former office and that of the Lord Speaker and Keeper – a course which has now given rise to much and serious controversy. His charge against the Duchess of Hammersmith was that in the Foreign Affairs Joint Committee ordering, finding and submitting those letters, it was evident that the Duchess of Hammersmith had endeavoured to prevent their submission while she remained the Secretary of State, a manner contrary to the respect and duty expected of one sitting within the Council of State and, indeed, the Senate. He must also call attention to the extraordinary conduct of the Duchess of Hammersmith in trying to shuffle the responsibility for the location and submission of the letters on the departmental civil service, as evidently the Foreign Affairs Joint Committee had no such issues. One could not help feeling some curiosity as to what there was behind which the Duchess of Hammersmith had endeavoured to hide.

As to the letters submitted before this chamber (Senate) it remains a very serious thing indeed for a Secretary of State to suggest to the Office of the Lord Speaker and Keeper a re-writing of correspondence existing between the two offices in order that greater clarity of diplomatic events could be seen to have originally existed, when the Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments appealed to the Lord Speaker and Keeper to formulate an address to a foreign Power, that was involved in a tense diplomatic incident with that Secretary of State. It had been unearthed that a letter dispatched to the Lord Speaker and Keeper, from the Duchess of Hammersmith, a day after the passing of a motion for a Grand Committee to investigate the diplomatic incident, contained a request to fraudulently make alterations to classified correspondence between the two offices; that request contained the urgent inclusion of a revision of diplomatic events that would clarify that the Duchess of Hammersmith initiated the diplomatic incident through a strongly worded criticism of the Pelasgian Imperial Government. The executive oversight of the Foreign Departments was passed to the Foreign Affairs Joint Committee following the resignation of the former Lady Chancellor, and the dissolution of her Council of State, including the removal of the Duchess of Hammersmith from the Office of the Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments. The Duchess of Hammersmith was no longer in a position of authority or control over that office and department, and her ability to hinder the investigation of the Grand Committee was also removed.

Submission of key documents of evidence belonging to the Foreign Departments would have continuously remained beyond the reach of the Engellexian Republic Parliament, itself altogether unjustifiable, if it were not for the ministerial crisis that unseated the Council of State. The consequent precedent established by this misconduct of office in respect and in violation of the dignity and sovereignty of the Engellexian Republic Parliament is severe. Such severity, on this exceptional and controversial occasion, not being found lost by the Earl of Haslar :-

Returning, Mr Speaker, to the members of the Grand Committee, I think it clearly demonstrated, that if they had greater difficulties to encounter than any former Grand Committee suffered; if they have been attacked, as they have been (Hammersmites), in a manner contrary to all decency by the whole host of usurpers and deplorables, whose villainies it was their object to expose; if they have been described as exercising the office of inquisitors rather than of members of a Grand Committee; if their views have been vilified not only in this Senate but throughout the public at large; if every possible obstacle has been thrown in the way of their investigations; if every thing, in short, has been done to disgust them, and make them relinquish the great task entrusted to them by the Engellexian Republic Parliament; and if, overlooking all these considerations, they have thought only of discharging their duty to their Republic, it will not surely be denied that their merit has, been greatly enhanced, that they are entitled to the warmest gratitude of the best interests of our great Republic.

By their firmness and their perseverance they have discovered what eluded the most plainest questions of members of this Senate and those of the other chamber (Bare Commons) for the purpose of ascertaining the greatest clarity of events and responsibility of the severest diplomatic incident since the 1920’s, what all the vigilance of members of this Senate could not fully bring to light. The members of the Grand Committee having thus done their duty to the public, it falls to my lot to bring to justice the usurpers whom they have exposed. It is needless for me to insist on the importance of the subject on which I am now addressing you. It is important to the high person whom the propositions with which I shall conclude principally involve. It is important to the very salvation and existence of our Republic. It is important to the Foreign Affairs Joint Committee who have brought forward this most interesting evidence. If the Senate decides, as it appears to me that they are in duty bound, and as it strikes me it is almost impossible for them not to decide, it will prove that no person guilty of so flagrant a violation of an express sovereignty and dignity of the Engellexian Republic Parliament, as that contained in those submissions, that no individual strongly suspected of conniving at such unwarrantable application of government correspondence, however high their rank or extensive their influence, shall escape with impunity.

The public will look with reverence to our decisions; they will be convinced that a door is opened for the introduction of respect and accountability in our public departments and Secretaries of State. If, on the contrary, our decision should be contrary to these just hopes and expectations; if we shall, in defiance of the evidence on our table, pronounce the noble Lady not guilty, then indeed the people will have serious cause for complaint and indignation; then the vulgar assertion may with great apparent plausibility be employed; we may with truth be accused of seeking only power as our sole object, in place of the good of our Republic. No longer can we be considered as statesmen animated by a laudable spirit of ambition - that ambition implanted in our nature to incite us to high deeds. We must then be considered as acting only from the base, sordid motives which degrade the character of the statesman, and render him contemptible in the eves of his fellow citizens. Feeling these truths severely, I do trust that the Senate will accede to those propositions which it is my intention to found, tomorrow, on the facts which the submissions have disclosed. This evidence involves a number of individuals. It is not only the Duchess of Hammersmith and her former First Permanent Secretary, that are involved, but we have the Permanent Under Secretary to the First Permanent Secretary (to the Lord Speaker and Keeper), who cut a considerable figure in this scene. We have also brought before us the high and respectable person in the Lord Speaker and Keeper, who has unfortunately been found in a compromised position by his own staff.

The Earl of Haslar’s address to the Senate is being interpreted as a marked decline in the political fortunes and obvious aspirations of the Duchess of Hammersmith. It is not quite yet made obvious to all of the public the intended motion of the Earl of Haslar, but as a staunch defender of the dignity and sovereignty of the Engellexian Republic Parliament it is widely accepted that a motion calling for a degree of punishing action will be made, the strongest possibility exists that it may be a Censure of the Republic.

 

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Revolution in Saaremaa

The revolution in Saaremaa under the lead of the General Secretary of the Party of the Left, Koit Sokk, broken out in utmost earnest at the end of October seems to have reached the attention of the Engellexian Republic. This gentleman and his Revolutionary Liberation Army, a designated terrorist organisation by most of moderate Europe, have acquired control of the Kingdom of Saaremaa and executed its dissolution, along with the independence of Loago, causing ever greater trouble for Europe.

The lack of attention given to this development by the Engellexian Republic should not be shocking to any observer of the Republic; revolutions in Scania are such a thing of so frequent occurrence that no one in Dulwich or Elephant and Castle seems to care to hear of the next one. It is believed in Elephant and Castle that there are between four or six socialist revolutions in motion or succeeded within that particular region of Europe - and the one belonging to Saaremaa is unlikely to be the last one. The bad condition of the monarchy, as a political system in the twentieth-century, is, we understand it in the Republic, at the bottom of every revolutionary and socialist action that takes place throughout Scania. What is driving these revolutionaries to such successes, however, is the supply of monies and armaments by the greatest sponsor of the regressing civilisation in Europe - Kadikistan. For as long as Kadikistan was concerned with tensions, and her existence, from the vulnerabilities of the Kalahari Sea, everything in Scania ran smoothly enough. But as soon as Ivar became relaxed and confident in her position of peace with the Kalahari Powers, revolutions immediately break out in the decades following, throughout the neighbours of Kadikistan, evidence of Ivar's boredom at peace, prosperity and progress in Europe; and this will continue until some lucky turn of the wheel of fortune delivers Ivar a rude hand.

It is a little remarkable too, that Loago, where precious minerals and natural resources do most abound in the former kingdom, should be so swiftly dispatched with, and almost without consideration or discussion with those of that Himyari colony.

The Engellexian Republic will be, as certain other moderate civilisations will be, driven to the most creative desperation to obtain some sort of foundation necessary for the continued progress and prosperity of itself, given the collapsing fortunes of the democratic and free of trade in Europe. The Lieutenant Governor of Elephant and Castle has addressed to both houses of the Constituent Assembly of Camden the compelling argument to devise the means of subjecting Loagoan exports to greater tariffs, Saaremaa also. If Camden fails to do so, he argued, she will be indignantly deprived of her rightful bounty owed by another dead anchor to the progress of South Himyar.

The revolution which had taken place in Saaremaa will spread and increase in ferocity to Loago, until it becomes too strong to be resisted, unless the Constituent Assembly of Camden leads the resistance to the clamours of the unwashed masses of these backward scratches of earth. This, he states to be achievable by the proposition of the Lord Governor of Elephant and Castle, Lord Henry Swann-Pryce, to make a descent upon the Fronter States of the North and West reaches, and by a system of vigorous assertion by the potency of our Dutied men and women expand to the natural reaches, we historically aspired, to lessen the pressures upon the continued Sovereignty of our Engellexian Republic in South Himyar. But the Lord Governor stressed that he cannot do this without sufficient powers granted in a sole public figure of authority - and in his earnest he has turned to the Constituent Assembly of Camden, through the Lieutenant Governor, to propose for the Instrument of Advocacy imploring the federal assembly of the Engellexian Republic Parliament in Dulwich, the Senate and Bare Commons, to legislate the election of a Lord Protector. With a Lord Protector, the Republic would be reinforced with a unified authority to suppress the agitations of Kadikistan against the Clarencian Sea, direct the argument of constitutional reform out of the present state of confusion, mitigate the severity of taxation through the re-issue of the Protectorship Lottery Drafts, carry out the necessary schemes of the Republic upon the Clarencian and Thaumantic to establish the Republic securely against revolutionary designs.

Elephant and Castle's position then is easily understood in the Republic. The necessities, the Lieutenant Governor admits, cannot be delayed. If the Governor's Council (upper house of the Constituent Assembly of Camden) should confirm the Instrument of Advocacy at once, it would result in nothing more or less than the re-establishment of the Lord Protector, as the House of Burgesses' approval remains informal and the leadership provided by the Constituent Assembly of Camden will secure the support of Otho-Eam, Mary-le-Bone, and Somers Islands. If the Governor's Council should reject the Instrument of Advocacy, the result would be a successful revolution in Loago and the dissolution and exile of progressive civilisation in South Himyar.

Important consequences now depend upon the rejection or the confirmation of the Instrument of Advocacy in Elephant and Castle.

Northern Frontier Territory

A letter to the Camden Courier, dated the Green Wash, Northern Frontier of Sheridan, December 5th, says :- We have applied to the Lord Governor of Elephant and Castle, and the Constituent Assembly of Camden to be liberated, by our separation, from Sheridan into the territory of the Camdenite Republic of Engellex; to be bounded in the East by the border with Ashkelon, North by the Green Sea, and West by Otho-Eam. The area included comprises almost the entirety of the Northern Frontier Territory, that belongs to Sheridan, and would provide Camden with access to the Green Sea. It is not understood specifically how many people populate that territory exactly. The Office of the Lieutenant Governor confirmed that Elephant and Castle had received such request, and that the Lord Governor will present the situation to the Council of the Republic.

 

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The authorities of the State of Loago wishes to give insurances to the Engell Himyari States that the Himyari Saare people are loyal to the crown of the north and that we will do anything necessary to fight Kadikistani sponsored terrorism and to keep it away from the southern shores of our continent. We will fight diligently to defeat and liberate the motherland from the slaves that keep it hostage. The government of the Kingdom of Saaremaa still functions and leads the fight against Kadikistan and Marxism-Leninovism.

The events in Saaremaa can hardly be called a revolution, and most certainly cannot be compared with what happened in Milesia and Calidia. The Prometheist government tried to bring peace but it was utterly rejected and betrayed by the communist forces who came to power through a coup d'etat organized by Kadiki agents who infiltrated the White Army. Even now we are preparing for a grand operation to bring back Saaremaa in the realm of the free and liberate it from the Kadikistan shackles.

While we understand the need of the Engell States to defend their trade and economies and the most important, to keep them stable, we assure them that the State of Loago is as stable as ever and will be open to cooperate with the Engell Republic and the Himyari States, economically, politically and socially. While we understand the Engellexic antipathy and skepticism towards monarchy as a political system we still have to plead for their understanding that currently, the Monarchy is the lesser of two evils, both for the Saare people and for the international scene. Currently it would be more important to see that democracy can survive in both monarchism and republicanism and just for that we should cooperate to fight communism, as that is the true system that breaks and even destroys the human spirit.

Signed,
On behalf of T.K.K Alvar V Tamm,
Mihkel Vaino
Lord Governor of Loago

 

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ELEPHANT & CASTLE - 19th JANUARY 1957​

Hammersmith Question

The Dulwich Gazette has informed, that the question of the Metropolitan Republic of Hammersmith is settled. We presume it is so. The Council of the Republic is quoted as congratulating the Engellexian Republic upon its settlement - the Camden Courier regrets our inability to echo back the congratulation. The Council of the Republic approves, we presume, of the Compromise. We cannot join in this sentiment. Instead of joy, we scarcely ever recollect to have tasted of a more bitter disappointment. We cannot chuckle over the prospect which this Compromise presents to our comprehension. A constitution warped from its legitimate bearings, and an immense industrial metropolis closed forever against the democratic citizenry of both itself and the Republic - such is the sorry sight which rises to our view.

Strip this Compromise of all its glosses and pretexts, and what is it? We do not address ourselves to the race of quibblers, but to men of plain commonsense. What is this Compromise? Hammersmith was called upon, when she knocked at the doors of the Engellexian Republic Parlement, to pay the price of her disgraceful and insurrectionist admission; and this price was to strip her of her sovereign democratic inheritance:- the right of choosing the fundamental rules and system by which she would governed, and of changing the rules whenever the interest of the citizenry should require change. If this unfair demand is to be successfully obtained, what is required of the Parlement next? That they should make a similar surrender for all those who may hereafter inhabit a much similar metropolis of the Republic - similarly attached to the business of the Republic Navy and, or the Republic's Trading Companies:- in plain language, that the Engellexian Republic Parlement should forever be free to take from them the privilege of self-government, under the pretence that it is a needful regulation for a Thaumantic-spanning nation in which not a single human being exists that is not subject to the laws of the Engellexian Republic.

It is thus that the Compromise is summed up - Give us forever the metropolis that is the industrial Hammersmith, with no exception of surrounding rural pastures and estates; let that door of democratic administrations and constituent assemblies, inclusive of all free citizens of Hammersmith, be forever shut to yourselves; and you consent to the condominium of the Republic Naval Council and the Engellexian Thaumantic Company over the constituent republican affairs of Hammersmith. We will admit the Metropolitan Republic of Hammersmith into the Engellexian Republic. The bill says nothing of any other part of the Republic with significant administrative interest of the Republic Naval Council or any of the Trading Companies, just Hammersmith. Yet, to avoid all cavilling, let us admit that understanding to be, that the whole Metropolitan Republic of Hammersmith is to be forever open to Capital Duties and Republic Naval administration; then how stands the case? The entirety of the Engellexian Republic in the North Thaumantic, with the exception of Hammersmith, is to be forever prohibited to Capital Duties and subject to laws and regulations made in democratic constituent assemblies; the Engellexian Republic in South Himyar is to be forever open, and in course expanded, to Capital Duties, with Republic Naval administrations awaiting the opportunity to introduce needful regulation over democratic constituent assemblies.

It has indeed been contended, by the Council of the Republic, that the word forever imports only a number of decades; so long only as any part of this territory remains under the territorial interest urgency of the Republic Naval Council; and that it is not meant to restrict the metropolis, when it throws off the revolutionary-insurrectionist intrusion to assume that shape of legitimate and self-defining Constituent Republic. Those who are the authors of this Compromise, will best known its intention. We confess, here in the Camden Courier, that we do not admire the language in which it is made. Why that expressive word forever? Why copy significant chapters of the original ordinances that founded a number of cities in Engell Himyar, if it be not intended to pursue the earliest precedent set in South Himyar of Republic Naval and Trading Company administration; and to subject the future metropolises of interest across the Republic, to the same terms which have been dictated to Hammersmith? Did we not have the Lord Governor of Elephant and Castle, an advocate of this Compromise, speak of this as a Compact? Do not they consider it in the light of a Compact, as binding forever upon Hammersmith, and probable future metropolises, whether in the shape of a territorial interest, or of a Constituent Republic? Every Southern Engell member of the Bare Commons who voted for this bill was bound under this view of it, to disclaim such an interpretation, lest it be hereafter said that it binds himself; however, he has not the power to bind up the hands of his successors, or to barter away the sovereign rights of future Constituent Republics. If, in fact, it were only meant to restrict them as a territory, why employ this word forever? Why, if it did incautiously creep into the bill, was it not deliberately stricken out? Why was it not indeed carefully and expressly stipulated that the restriction was confined to a number of decades, rather than forever? Yet no motion to this effect is recollected, except only one of Lady Porpentina Strangebone's* in the Senate, which was not acted upon, because it was pronounced to be out of order.

But if this bill carries this feature with it; if it be a part of the system to call upon a future Engellexian Republic Parlement to extend the restriction to Constituent Republics, it is open to the constitutional objections, which have and continue to be applied to the reformation and elevation of the Engell States constitutionally within the Engellexian Republic.

But the deed is done. The bill has been passed by both the Bare Commons and the Senate, as of 18 January, with the treaty between the Metropolitan Republic of Hammersmith and the Engellexian Republic Parlement signed, sealed and delivered as of this day. The Compromise which was born from a city which threw itself into a blaze of revolution and insurrection, that was forcibly removed from the Constituent Republic of Angellex, and then seized by the Republic Naval Council, is consummated. We submit. We bow to it, though on no occasion with so poor a grace and so bitter a spirit. The North and South are wronged; they must be patient. This Engellexian Republic is too dear to us all to be torn asunder by paid revolutions of foreign entities and enemies. We prize it took reverently, to mediate a blow at it. Some have indeed thought fit to threaten the dissolution of the Republic from the eruption of the second winter discontent to the agitatings discussions of Hammersmith, but in truth, the present situation never seriously jeopordized it, in fact, it strengthened it. We take leave of the question of Hammersmith with the bitterest disappointment. But with all our disquietude and regrets, there is intermingled one pleasurable emotion, that the high minded citizens of this great Republic have succeeded in their wishes - to witness a permanent end to the threat of revolution on our soil.

Engellexian Republic Parlement

In the Senate five resolutions have been offered, proposing as many amendments of the Constitution of the Engellexian Republic, in relation to the necessity to adopt the Dulwich Conference Reforms. One plan is, to restructure the system of government within the Republic to recognise the geographical difference between Dulwich and Elephant & Castle, along with the Constituent Republics that surround them; this would involve an additional level of government, existing between the Constituent Assemblies and the Engellexian Republic Parlement, it has been proposed to introduce this addition as a congress, with the citizenry of the Northern Constituent Republics directly electing representatives to the Northern Congress of the Engellexian Republic - and those in the Southern Constituent Republics electing representatives to the Southern Congress of the Engellexian Republic; the Northern and Southern Congress would both exist as unicameral legislatures with provisions over their exclusive geographic dominion. This plan as a product of the reforms has, it is generally believed, wide support, with Lord Percival Picquery, of Henrietta, supporting it in a speech of considerable length in the Senate. Baroness Prudence Harkaway, of Camden, is for realigning of executive offices of the Council of State as they were between 1905 and 1928. Her object is to attach to the Southern Constituent Republics that equalled degree of importance in matters of foreign policy that existed from 1905 to 1928, and importance which the good of the Southern Republic requires. The Office of the Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments, Baroness Harkaway said, was not representative of differences of geography that the Republic previously, and historically recognise as existing, and does not practice the equality which the Dulwich Conference Reforms demand. Prior to the creation of the Foreign Departments, and between 1905 and 1928, the foreign affairs of the Republic was overseen by two executive departments, the Northern Office and the Southern Office; which, when they existed Baroness Harkaway argues, maintained the highest qualifications of standards by an executive department. Now, while the Engellexian Republic Parlement was deeply interested in constitutional reforms, it was right and proper to readdress this crucial issue, not simply for equality, but for the efficient and accountable execution of executive function in the area of foreign affairs. Similarly the Office of the Secretary of State of the Chancellery is facing scrutiny, with members of the Senate from the Southern Constituent Republics proposing the dissolution of that executive office, and the introduction of two new executive offices along geographic alignments - the Office of the President of the Northern/Southern Constituent Republics - to provide equalled and dual leadership over the Council of State, and the Council of the Republic, when the Lord Protectorship is vacant.

*Lady Porpentina Strangebone is a Senator from Henrietta, Southern Constituent Republics.

 

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ELEPHANT & CASTLE - 21st JANUARY 1957​

Engellexian Republic Parlement

In the Senate, the consideration of the resolution calling for the amendment to the Constitution that will abolish and reform one of the Great Executive Offices of State, the Office of the Secretary of State of the Foreign Departments, which was recommended by the Grand Committee of the Republic and recently by Baroness Prudence Harkaway, senator for Camden, failed to pass the Foreign Affairs Joint Committee and will not be presented to the Bare Commons as a bill to be voted upon. Members of the Foreign Affairs Joint Committee expressed a reserve at empowering any executive office or offices with charge over the Republic's foreign affairs at this present moment; with the Joint Committees of the Engellexian Republic Parlement formed equally of members from both the Senate and Bare Commons, as well as Northern and Southern Constituent Republics, it is not likely that the development will be one of controversy. Similarly, the Executive Operations Joint Committee accepted a resolution from Lord Samuel Femming, of Mary-le-Bone, to have a bill introduced to the Bare Commons on the amendment of abolishing a different Great Executive Office of State, the Office of the Secretary of State of the Chancellery, and having the executive function shared between two new executive positions :- the Office of the President of the Northern Constituent Republics; the Office of the President of the Southern Constituent Republics. It is strongly believed in Dulwich and Elephant & Castle that the bill to be introduced to the Bare Commons will pass with a strong majority; it is expected to be passed in the Senate also, should it be successful within the Bare Commons. The Joint Committee, on Finance affairs have reported a bill, authorising to appropriate the sum 535,700 pounds for the clearance of the destroyed structure of the former parliamentary building and to construct a new, enlarged Seat for the Engellexian Republic Parlement in Dulwich. Such a bill would be in consideration by the Joint Committee for a number of years, but the consideration of the bill having been taken, by the Joint Committee, in absence of a suitable building to sit, the matter was recognised as the utmost priority for the Engellexian Republic Parlement. Given the circumstance that is Parlement conducting its business within six, separate and largely unsuitable, though grand buildings throughout Dulwich, the bill is not expected to face any hurdles in the Bare Commons, nor the Senate.

An interesting debate took place on the favourable report of the Lieutenant Governor of Elephant and Castle, to the petition of Captain Andrew Duval, within the Senate. It appears that Cpt. Duval was a distinguished officer of the Republic Navy during the 1920s Socialist Revolutions, and was severely wounded in the battle at Cape Gold, now part of the Socialist World Republic; that at the close of the war, being unable to purchase land, and not knowing that the act of Parlement, granting the right of free sale to settlers on Public Lands, in Camden and Otho-Eam, had expired prematurely by repeal, he settled on a tract of land that he was officially advised as belonging to the Engellexian Republic on the Green Wash, north of the Constituent Republic of Camden; that he had significantly improved the lot and raised the value of the lands in the immediate surrounding. He discovered in January 1955 that that land actually existed within the borders of the Federated States of Sheridan, though the Engellexian Republic did not recognise, ever, the sovereignty of that State over the Northern Frontier of Sheridan; he now urges the Engellexian Republic Parlement to unilaterally annex the Northern Frontier, that so many pioneers of Engellex have settled under confusion. The report of the Lieutenant Governor was agreed for a Second Hearing at a later date. By an act of Parlement the sum of 50,000 pounds is to be annually appropriated, over the duration of five years, to the resettlement and improvement of Scanian and Gallia-Germanian peoples to the Constituent Republic of Camden. Some alteration of this law is still being contemplated from the arguments of senators and members of the Bare Commons from Otho-Eam. It is believed by those from Otho-Eam that the sum should be increased, to allow for a greater catchment of peoples desiring to emigrate; with Baron Francis Pennscotte, of Otho-Eam, urging that the benefits of the resettlement law be extended to the Constituent Republic of Otho-Eam, which the act would seem to exclude despite the urgency of settlers needed in that southern constituent republic. Baron Pennscotte submitted a resolution to that effect, which was laid over for consideration.

In the Bare Commons, the joint resolutions of Mr. Thomas Bumble, Member for Hogswych, and Mrs. Isabelle Strobridge, Member for Winnsboro East, relative to the trials of the Duke and Duchess of Hammersmith for High Treason at the Witenagemot*, and proposing instead that the Engellexian Republic Parlement simply transfers their custody to the Hammersmith Human Commodity Exchange, occupied some attention, and succeeded in acquiring enough support to be referred to Committee. The bill for obtaining the necessary surveys, plans, and estimates, on the subject of roads and railways, was taken up in Committee, and was advocated by Mr. Dennis Bolcombe, Member for Rougarou South, and Mr. John Tiggory, Member for Nogtown, both of Otho-Eam. The debate turned on the Sovereign Constitutional power of the Engellexian Republic Parlement in regard to the urged internal improvements of the Constituent Republic of Otho-Eam. The bill was ordered to a third reading. The blank section for appropriation, was filled with 25,000 pounds. It provides for the surveying of such roads and railways, as Parlement may deem of such national importance, in a commercial, or military point of view. Mrs. Elizabeth Halliwell, Member for Potspur West, from the Committee to whom the subject was referred, reported a bill to authorize the occupation of the Otho Reach Territory (Far west) by the Lieutenant Governor of Babbage; which was twice read and committed.

The Bare Commons went into a Committee of the Whole. Miss Emeline Blancheflower, Member for Bloomfleet, in the Chair, on the resolution from Mr. Avery Bargeman, Member for Aldsmeade, which was read :- Resolved, that provision ought to be made by law for paying the expense consequent to the appointment of a Commissioner-General for the Thaumantic Area, whenever the Engellexian Republic Parlement shall deem it expedient to elect a Lord Protector. Mr. Bargeman supported the Resolution in a long and eloquent speech, in which he exposed, in an able manner, the policy of the Revolutionary Powers, maintained the necessity of the Engellexian Republic assuming a decided stand on the side of Free Civilisations, gave a short account of the progress which has been made in the recovery of Peace and Freedom following the Hope of Revolution, and stated the effects of the measure contemplated in his resolution. A third question may here be asked. What should the Republic do? The bloody thunder of Ivar's revolutions are no longer distant - the mighty Thaumantic crashes between our Northern and Southern Constituent Republics - the Republic is not safe; would you have us go to war against Ivar? Would have us send fleets and armies into Scania and Germania? No, I would not. But the reasoning of my answer mistakes our Age. Formerly, indeed, there was no making an impression on a nation but to burst down their door by bayonets, or by subsidies, by fleets and armies. But the Age has undergone a change; there is a force in sponsored radicalism and revolution, which if permitted to prosper will outweigh any and all military force that can be brought to oppose it. Until underground radicalism is removed, the greatest enemy to the peace and prosperity of Free Civilisation cannot be considered yet dead. What is the spirit that forms and energizes our own great institutions, of our entire system of government? Freedoms. While this Republic acts with the greatest intensity in their defence and moves in the right direction in their expansion, the Republic must ever be safe - let us direct this force, the vast moral force of this grand Republic to the aid, and the detriment, of Others. Let us speak of empowering the Thaumantic Area with the Freedoms of the Republic; let us speak of enriching those civilisations of the Thaumantic with the wealth and might of our Freedoms; and let us speak of forever closing off the Free Thaumantic to those Powers that have made themselves an Enemy of Free Civilisation.

*Witenagemot is the highest court in the Engellexian Republic.

 

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ELEPHANT & CASTLE - 22nd JANUARY 1957​

Fictional Worship in the Northern Frontier Territory

Lady Ernestina Filhus, Mayor of Parselwood, a town close to the border of Sheridan, in Northern Camden, gives the following account of god-fearing worship among those across the border - a border which is within sight of the naked eye of those living in Parselwood, Camden.

In the Northern Frontier (Sheridan), there exists at least, three distinct systems of uncivilised god-fearing barbary worship; namely Christianity, Judaism, and Tribal Paganism. The account here given is respecting that form of god-fearing worship which is, the following of Christ; but when the whole round of its peculiar ceremonies and obstructionist literature is considered, it properly means, the feared and unreasonable worship of a mighty fictional wizard, and his equally mighty, and equally fictional wizard son! Whether such a form of barbary does really exist about the immediate frontiers of our civilised Republic, has, all are aware, been called in question, but the following statement of facts is made by one who has been many years a mayor of our northern most town, and has availed herself of every means of information on the subject; and for the purpose of satisfying her own mind, has often done violence to her own civilised feelings, by being present on a number of occasions when these deplorable, backward ceremonies of god-fearing worship have been performed. It is now stated, therefore, and it is hoped to be heard in every corner of the Civilised and Free Republic, that the fictional Gods - Wizards of Christianity, Judaism, and Pagan Cults are regularly, systematically, and ceremoniously worshiped out of fear and illiteracy by a too large a number of those within the Northern Frontier Territory!

In the form of wizard worship established in the Northern Frontier Territory, a prince of sorts has already been recognised and acknowledged. Under him is the typical succession of subordinate, malignant men, of different ranks, possessions, dispositions, and sanity! These all have to do, with the unreasonable sense of fear prevalent among too much of mankind, and perverted need to control the lives and minds of others. The communities in the Northern Frontier Territory are and all things in it, under their control and government. The god-fearing worship of fictional beings has been acknowledged as possessing good, as well as evil, figures, most notably in nations such as Eiffelland. But from all that Lady Ernestina Filhus has ever been able to collect, she claims to have not heard of a single benevolent being among those worshiped in the Northern Frontier Territory. They are all evil; exercising a most wicked and malicious influence over the affairs of men and women and children; and on this account the people are in continual fear of them.

To conciliate the esteem and forgiveness, for existing, of the their wizard, or, more properly, to avoid his malignant preference for cruelty, and thus judgement to enter a hell world after death, these people seek to please him by various offerings and ceremonies. The chief actors in these ceremonies are those fraudulent princes, the Republic is historically too familiar with. These men - and only men - are supposed to carry on continual intercourse with these fictional beings; they are also supposed not only to have a particular acquaintance with him, but also great influence over him. Lady Ernestina Filhus gave no opinion on this subject; but on her own questioning of these men in private, whether or not they really did hold converse with the fictional wizard, or wizards - unclear, they have replied in the affirmative, and yet such has been their confusion or peculiar agitation of mind on these occasions, that the Mayor of Parselwood had reason to believe they made the confession reluctantly, or with no design to persuade the real argument of their fictional worship; the mayor suggested this could be interpreted as a self-discipline against escalating tensions among those within the fictional worship world that exists in the Northern Frontier Territory. However, this, Lady Ernestina Filhus left; only remarking, that in the person and whole demeanour of these men, there is something exceedingly strange and unaccountable.

When the Trading Companies of Old had possession over most of Southern Himyar, they prohibited fictional worships by governing regulations and laws, and made it a capital offence for any one to profess themself a god prince. The Engellexian Republic succeeded control and regulations by enacting laws against it, also. How far such measures were successful throughout Southern Himyar, it is difficult to say; but it is a fact, that the delusion has so complete a hold on the hearts of the people in the Northern Frontier Territory, and occupies their hopes and fears so strongly that nothing but the re-formation of the Ministry of the Extraordinary and Civilised Office (MoECO), its Department of Vigilance and Regulation of Unlawful Fictional Adherence (DoVRUFA), that department's Committee for the Removal of Delusional People (CRDP), and, most controversially, the Agency for the Interception of Dangerous Speakers (AIDS), can effectually succeed in eradicating it. Of late years, many important steps have been taken towards a complete overthrow of the fictional system. The Guardians of the Republic, a vigilante group, have members stationed in various and many towns and villages throughout the Southern Constituent Republics, and have directed much of their attention to the fictional system, and exposed it attempting expansion by very prudent means; and in all our schools, in the Engellexian Republic, among the children, the horror, insanity and backwardness of this fictional, fearful and cruel worship is deeply impressed on their minds. So successful have schools in Camden been in this respect, that the youth of our Republic, taught in our schools, not only refuse to have anything to do with such fiction and its ceremonies themselves, but, by the most public opposition, manifest their dislike. Lady Ernestine Filhus, Major of Parselwood, informed that when, in the neighbouring town of Minnburg, it had been made known that fictional worshipers across the border were successful in continuously supplying their own town through trade with Minnburg, a small party of local youth demanded their major end the commercial association, else they should invite a Guardian to intervene.

The Camden Courier reached out for a statement from the Lord Governor of Elephant and Castle, Lord Henry Swann-Pryce. The Officer of the Lord Governor issued a statement assuring the Camden Courier that the situation of possible expansion, and entrenchment of fictional worship in Southern Himyar is being closely followed. The consideration for the re-founding of the Ministry of the Extraordinary and Civilised Office, and its associated sub-departments and agencies, is a matter for the Constituent Assembly of Elephant and Castle.

Northern Constituent Republics

The Admiral-General of the Republic, Admiral Walter Drake the Viscount Drake and the First Lord of the Hammersmith Admiralty, has succeeded in receiving the decided nomination of the Angellex Nomination Convention, and the Gewissex Nomination Society, for the Lord Protectorship. The representatives of those two Constituent Republics, though not bound to strict voting, will be constituent pressures to vote for Admiral Walter Drake within the election, taking place within the Engellexian Republic Parlement. The Admiral-General of the Republic has succeeded in receiving the nomination from Angellex, Gewissex, Otho-Eam, Camden, Mary-le-Bone, and the Somers Islands. The election of Admiral Walter Drake, an advocate of the First Republic ideology alongside, and allied to, the Lord Governor of Elephant and Castle, is now being assumed by the commercial and industrial classes throughout the Engellexian Republic.

 

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ELEPHANT & CASTLE - 20th April 1956​

VISCOUNT DRAKE ELECTED LORD-PROTECTOR

THE CAMDEN COURIER is authorised to declare the victorious election of Admiral Walter Drake the Viscount Drake and Admiral-General of the Republic, by the free people, and their Electors, of the Engellexian Republic. We declare this is a fixed and historical fact. Democracy and liberty are rendered safe. The striped Colours yet wave in undiminished splendour in the atmosphere of a First Republic. Enemies, fools, and the appeasers have been swept away by the torrent of patriotism, which has empowered upon its wave the gallant champions of our Republic and our Republic's cause. The potent voice of the Angelli-Lexen democracy has spoken the thundering words - Revolution, no more - and before the presence of those words the elements of faction and greed, of Expansion and Abolition (slavery), of Northern and Southern have subsided and the phoenix of renaissance spreads her wings of flame over the lately troubled waters of Engellex. Let the hearts of patriots take wing, and be confident that the Republic and her institutions are safe in the haven of our Enlightened Democracy.

OFFICIAL RESPONSE OF THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF ANGELLEX

We give below the closing passage of the official statement of the Lord Lieutenant of Angellex, the first of the Electors to address the news. The Camden Courier cannot endorse the negative view of Lord Lieutenant George Grey as to the election - for, while he is correct in the statement that the Viscount Drake ran unopposed in the Lord-Protectorship election, it is not true that the nomination of the Viscount Drake was unopposed during the Constituent nomination conventions, multiple candidates were entered in those conventions throughout the Republic, but ultimately only one can prevail, and that was the Viscount Drake. What is more important to that negativity, the Viscount Drake is not just a Lord-Protector with an electoral majority, the Electors Convention was unanimous in their votes for the Viscount Drake. The new Lord-Protector carries with him all of the Southern Constituent Republics, and all of the Northern Constituent Republics; and yes there were no other candidates, but it is well within the regulations, and traditions, of the Electors Convention to withhold a vote for any candidate, to abstain, and it was widely believed the Lord Governor of Mary-le-Bone may have been decided to that tradition. Only one, other Lord-Protector recieved a unanimous Electors Convention, the first Lord-Protector. This, of itself, is a gratifying result, and must exert a satisfactory influence upon the public mind throughout the Republic. We cannot doubt that the Constituent Republic of Mary-le-Bone, which widely cast their votes against the Viscount Drake, will regard his election by a clear majority as the deliberate decision of the Engell people, expressed through constitutional means, and, having their eyes forced open to the regressive and violent appeals of the thuggish Revolutionaries of Europe against the Republic, will seize the first occasion to rally to the support of the First Republic.

But, while we indulge in these hopeful anticipations, the Camden Courier at the same time fully endorses Lord Lieutenant George Grey's sound and patriotic appeals for the Engellexian Republic in defence of independence, the Constitution, and our equal liberties from them. The factious and revolutionary attempts of Europe's Revolutionary States to infiltrate the minds of one of the Republic's most respected and established aristocratic families, the Hammersmiths, to be encouraged to seize power illegally, and the ferocious assaults of their revolutionary agents in Hammersmith upon the heart of our Republic, the centre of our democracy, all go to show that the leaders of the Engellexian Republic's greatest, most violent, uncivilised Competitors abroad mean to leave no effort untried and will again struggle hard for the ascendancy of their liking, in our Republic. We believe that the rank and file of their insurrectionist followers will refuse again to be hoodwinked by their flimsy, hollow appeals, and will scorn their revolutionary machinations. But, so long as Kadikistan and Serenierre maintain their operations in Borovanger, the free citizens of the Republic should be prepared for the worst kind of escalation, and, with the powerful aid and leadership of our new First Republicans, keep the armour of the Engellexian Republic bright and ready for possibly the fiercest conflict yet. The Republic, unlike before, is unwilling to stand on the defensive with the Revolutionaries. Engellex will make no new issues, present no new and unreasonable demands - but should and will simply contend for the equality of liberty and independence to all within her sphere, and will submit to nothing less. Let the Engellexian Republic be united, under one Lord-Protector, and her just demands to freedom can not be refused.

With those brief comments, we publish the following extract from Lord Lieutenant George Grey's address :-

We, as a Republic, have just passed through the most exciting and important political exercise that has ever occured to anyone alive, now, in Engellex. It was a tense contest. It was a contest of present and future, and the issue was the free, independent preservation of the Engellexian Republic. The success of the First Republic candidate, head of our Republic Navy, with his platform of embracing Engell exceptionalism as a doctrine for within the Republic and especially with matters abroad; the restoration of the Engellexian Thaumantic Sphere; the check and abolition of Revolutionary ideology within Gallia-Germania and Himyar; the expansion of the Human Commodity System; the restoration of Engellex as Europe's most technologically advanced and powerful power, would have certainly forced governments abroad to take an interest in the political developments of recent. No interest, was made, and the Admiral-General of the Republic is now the Lord-Protector. The First Republicans,with their band of pure and noble patriots, North and South, passionate defenders of justice and our shared, equal freedoms, have breasted the storm and achieved a triumph.

The patriots of the Republic, Northern and Southern, are rejoicing in the election of a conservative, able and pure statesman as Lord-Protector of the Engellexian Republic, the First Republic. And it is a matter for the honest and earnest congratulation. But let us not lay aside our armour. The Vscount Drake has carried all Constituent Republics with him through the Electors Convention, and yet he does not go into the Lord-Protectorship backed by the absolute moral force of the Republic. He is elected from a single candidate contest, no opposition in the election.

FIRST REPUBLICANS & THE HUMAN COMMODITY SYSTEM​

All danger of economic and social ruin of the Southern Constituent Republics is over. The Human Commodity System will hereafter be, as it always should have been, the strongest bond and cement of the Engellexian Republic. The Human Commodity System makes the Northern and Southern Constituent Republics mutually dependent; makes one a market for the products of the other - and the other, a solution to the criminal underclass of the one. In its absence, trade, social intercourse, and commerce between the two areas of the Republic would cease, because the pursuits and products of each would be the same. In such event they would become rivals and competitors, and injure, instead of benefiting each other. Each area would be poor and half civilised, for it is the labour of Capital Duties and their products that create the wealth, the trade and manufactures of the Northern and Southern Constituent Republics. We should all realise the absolute benefit of Southern President Seraphina Underwood's position on the Human Commodity System. The old Engells who originally settled the Frontier Regions of the South and established vast estates were, in all respects, and remain equals of any Lord, Lady, or gentleman then in Engellex - and despite the challenges and differences of Southern life, the present Plantation Class, who retain Capital Duties on their estates, are a very refined and civilised people. Southern President Seraphina Underwood among them. The entry to the Human Commodity Market of those with a particularly religious disposition gives character and support to all civilisation, the habits, customs and manners of the North Thaumantic and our South Himyar. Since the successful restrictions made in Dulwich, Angellex sees and feels this. It begins to be seen and felt throughout our Republic - but especially in those Constituent Republics with industrial heartlands - whether they, themselves, were well integrated in to the Human Commodity System or not. Angellex, Westellex, and Gewissex were all for the abolition of the Human Commodity System, thirty-forty years ago; their zeal for the Human Commodity now rivals that of Camden, and Otho-Eam.

Political and religious Capital Duties are becoming popular as support for Human Commodity expansion grows. On all hands it is admitted to be a highly conservative political element in society, a reaction of Revolutionary encirclement. It restrains within the bounds of decency and morality, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press, and makes these liberties blessings, instead of curses. It exercises a conservative influence over the actions of all levels of government, and thus will preserve the Engellexian Republic and benefit equally Northern and Southern Constituent Republics. It elevates the labouring classes in the North by leaving to them manufactures, commerce and the mechanic arts, and at the same time supplies them with half the comforts and luxuries of life. The capitalists and aristocrats of the North - and indeed those of the South - see in this instutition the best preventive of that growing threat of socialism and revolution, from the East, which threatens their property. The philosophy that sustains our Human Commodity Market will sustain their possessions; the opposite philosophy, that of abolition, already boldly and loudly proposes to sweep those possessions away.

The extension of political and religious Capital Duties, or perhaps all Capital Duties, would cheapen the comforts and necessities of life, and advance the well being of all classes of the Republic. The departure of all Capital Duties from the System, and the abolition of the System thereafter, as the Abolitionists propose, would ruin economy and endanger society, Northern and Southern.

Public opinion is regularly invoked by Abolitionists, most especially those politicians - high and low - from Mary-le-Bone and Hwiccent, to settle debates and questions of our system of the Human Commodity. Public opinion is the foundation on which our Republic stands, as the most enlightened democracy in Europe. When the hemispherical level of government was made, only mere months ago, the free people of the Northern and Southern Constituent Republics were decided in gifting the greatest majority of those new offices and Congressional seats to men and women who supported the Human Commodity System, and its extension. Lady Seraphina Underwood was elected to the office of Southern President; her platform was arguably the biggest advocate for Expansion since the 18th century. Lady Anne Siward, the Northern President, also a publicly declared Expansionist. And now Admiral Walter Drake the Vscount Drake, our Lord-Protector, who is opposed to abolition. Public opinion is evidently in favour of Expansion. Whether that opinion is a swing from the opposite direction, or simply more encouraged to be open, is irrelevant. Expansionists can expect great change under our Lord-Protector and Presidents.

 

[Pelasgia]

Pelasgian Empire
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Public Statement

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21st of April, 1957
To whom it may concern.

The Empire would like to congratulate the Honourable Viscount Drake on his election to the position of Lord Protector. May his tenure bring peace and prosperity for both Engellex and all of its neighbours, in Himyar and elsewhere. As always, the Empire continues to voice its disapproval of the "Human Commodity System" and is hopeful that the new leadership of Engellex would alter the Republic's policy on the issue.

Signed and Sealed,

Ikaros Dragases

Minister of Foreign Affairs
Pelasgian Empire

ΕΝ ΤΟΥΤΩΙ ΝΙΚΑ
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[Rheinbund]

Aussenministerium
Trier, Eiffelland

Also we congratulate the Honourable Viscount Drake with his election to become the new Lord-Protector of Engellex. We wish him all the wisdom he will need as Lord-Protector, and hope for a fruitful cooperation with him.

We also would like to ask the Government of Engellex to consider alternatives to the Human Commodity System.

Rudolph Kögler, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Vice-Chancellor

 

[Great Engellex]

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TIBUR, DAFT OR DANGEROUS?
MASS-MURDER ATROCITY AT THE HEART OF OSTROVAKIA

OCTOBER 24 2017
OSTROGRAD, Ostrovakia - Engell Basin Correspondents have obtained the distressing confirmation of the mass-murder of many citizens of Ostrovakia within the Museum of Historical Progress in Ostrograd. The mass-murderers, believed to be aligned with the very same insurrectionist enterprise of Tibur that is widely recognised to be invading the Frontier lands, are allegedly leaving dark marks of ownership and responsibility of the atrocities at the scenes, including horrifying threats of escalation. This purge, as the mass-murders of Tibur have allegedly described, was clearly timed to coincide with the investigation taking place in Kashtan. Anonymous sources within Ostrograd Metropolitan Police have remarked that the Tiburan bombing operation was utterly devastating in its power and reach, leaving no opportunity for innocent citizens, or the police, to react.

The Holy See of Tibur has absolutely denied any involvement or responsibility with the mass-murderers.

In Elephant and Castle the Southern Constituent Republics Congress (SoCRC), still sensitive from the aggression of Tibur manifesting throughout Europe, has passed the immediate authorization of the Emergency Executive Security Powers Act. This action follows an emergency session of the Senate on Tuesday morning, who petitioned the lower house for this section of the Constitution to be ratified following the devastating events of the preceding day. The Southern President, Lady Seraphina Underwood, was understood to have been in attendance to witness the debate from the public gallery.

The Security Powers provision of the Constitution authorizes the immediate and unconditional transferring of the executive powers held by the Lord Governors of the Southern Constituent Republics, over departments, agencies and matters concerning security and war, to the Southern President; the formation of frontier militias from the First Continental Army of the Engellexian Republic, under the constitutionally expressed wish of the Southern Congress, for the purpose of waging uncontested war within the boundaries of the Southern Constituent Republics of the Engellexian Republic, and its South Thaumantic Domain, are part of the provision.

According to Edwin Spencer a Senator of Camden, the Senate passed the extraordinary emergency provision as a means of an act for the protection and defence of the Southern Constituent Republics against aggressive advances of Tibur's wizardry across the Northern Frontier Territory and the Western Frontier.

It is not yet clear whether Southern President Seraphina Underwood will exercise her new executive power to form frontier militias, but the free citizens of SoCRER are today reassured of the capability of their President to protect and defend them.

 

[Thaumantica]

Ostrograd M.P.
Press Conference Excerpt

"Yes we have seen this Penny Paper theory concerning the Tiburan minority and their conspicuous behavior following the attack, but at this time it is exactly that: a theory . . One we are considering very closely as we continue our search for the group or individual responsible."