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POPE JOHN NAMES ABBOT WOODSTONE ARCHBISHOP OF WINDHAVEN​

The Abbot of Holyrood and leader of the Order of St. Fergus, Abbé Edmund Woodstone, was named Archbishop of Windhaven by Pope John XXIII in Herzogenrode. The post makes him primate of Gunnland, the senior-most prelate in the country.

Archbishop Woodstone replaces Henry Cardinal Stewart, who died several weeks ago while visiting the Holy Father. The announcement was delayed until news could reach the abbot, who is currently making a tour of Fergusine missions to Far Himyar, in Loago and Port Stanley. He is expected to be named a cardinal in the next consistory.

His appointment came as something of a surprise. It was rumored that Cardinal Stewart, a powerful figure in the Church, had been grooming Msgr. Coemgein Gallagher as a successor. Gallagher was named a monsignor by the pope just before the appointment of Woodstone was made known. Some thought the Bishop Justin Broithe of Ayr, who is popular among liberals, would receive promotion. Woodstone is universally respected, although known to have personal differences with hardliners like Msgr. Gallagher and more accommodating churchmen like Bishop Broithe.

Archbishop Woodstone is descended from the Waldsteins of Geotri, and recently translated the Krieger Herr epic reportedly written by a monk in his family tree.​

 

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CAMERONS AND MacLEISHES IN CORRUPT ENGELLEXIC HIGH COMMISSION DEAL?
Proponents Claim Dockyard Facilities Will Spur Economic Growth in Dalmyre-Seaguard.

DALMYRE-SEAGUARD. A major new diplomatic station from the Engellexic Republic was supposed to bring jobs to Dalmyre-Seaguard, but its opponents now argue that corruption is involved.

"This deal was fast-tracked through the Foreign Office," said new justiciar Geoffrey mA. Kennedy, "when it should have been voted upon by the Thing." Kennedy, an independent thingman who has built cross-party support, argues that the deal was approved because the powerful MacLeish and Cameron clan-families saw a chance to sell their defunct dockyards at a premium. The chairman of the ruling Integrity Party, Brendan C. MacGinley, is an officer of Cameron Shipyards. The leader of the opposition Liberal Party, Douglas MacLeish, has business connections to Lloyd & MacLeish General Maritime Group. The two party leaders represent districts of Dalmyre-Seaguard, and both now face a possible revolt of their back-benchers over the deal.

In formal statements released today, MacLeish and MacGinley both argued that building and servicing the Engellexic High Commission will bring much needed jobs to Dalmyre-Seaguard. The largest city in Gunnland has suffered high rates of unemployment and crime since the 1970s. But the First Republic has strong opponents in the Thing, especially given our Engelsh-speaking cousins' unpopularity in Gunnland due to their active persecution of Christians.

 

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MacLEISH SUCCESSION CRISIS DIVIDES THEGNS AND WORRIES WILSON-GUNNS
Spending Weekend with Countess Mary, Queen Tells Reporters "Nothing Is Off the Table."

ST. TEARS. William Gunn Wilson, Earl of Tayr, had hoped that Queen Julian would rule out returning Clan MacLeish the islands of Oa and Mar and the title "Lord of the Isles." He was disappointed yesterday, at a press conference in Arundel Castle, where the queen said nothing would be predetermined before the meeting of the Council of Thegns.

The Council of Thegns is an eight-member body representing the heads of all of the armigerous clans: Buchanan, Cameron, Gunn, Keith, MacAllister, MacDougall, MacLeish, and MacLeod. It plays a limited but important role in the Gunnish constitution, laid down in the ancient and cryptic Book of Gunni: electing the monarch. But this week it plays a different but equally important role, especially in the long-term: determining its own membership. Last year this meant reversing the ban on the powerful Arundel ruling family, Clan MacLeod. This year it means determining the legitimate chief of the MacLeishes.

Duncan MacLeish died under mysterious circumstances in Trivodnia earlier this summer, provoking a national crisis. His cousin Douglas MacLeish accuses the Gunnish government of involvement, and is seen as a de facto leader in the clan. But the MacLeishes hold no territorial stronghold in Gunnland. The islands and the earldom of Tayr have been held by a powerful Gunn sept, the Wilsons, since 1945. After losing the Great Clan War of those years, the MacLeishes lost their ancestral title: "Lord of the Isles." Ever since, the real seat of MacLeish power has been corporate and financial: located primarily in the multi-billion talent shipping company Lloyd & MacLeish GMG. Its acting president, Mark Buchanan Smith, has documentation that he says proves he's the MacLeish's legal heir.

The succession crisis pits a Dalmyre-Seaguard businessman and most of the company officers against the remnants of the clans. The MacLeishes' traditional ally, Clan Keith, is concerned that making a Buchanan chief (legally this would immediately make Mark B. Smith "Mark MacLeish") will pull the MacLeishes into the Gunns' orbit. It is widely rumored that another traditional ally of Harlan Keith, Yorc MacAllister, the Mormaer of Finlaggan, secured the throne for Queen Julian because of a quarrel with the MacLeishes. Bitter divisions among the Gunns' enemies have made the royal clan more powerful than any time since 1945, but the prospect of Gunn allies controlling Clan MacLeish is still alarming to the Keiths.

The clan lands are on edge, concerned that the Keiths, those ancient Gunn enemies with so little to lose, will prepare for war. Such a war might test internal divisions within Clan Gunn, between the royal Gunns and Wilsons, and the resolve of the Gunns' allied clans. Queen Julian has promised to hold the Council together in a spirit of fairness and magnanimity.

 

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Editorial: Irresponsible Press Stirs War Rumors Over MacLeish v. Smith​

Relaxing libel laws in the name of a "free press" now seems to be part of a MacLeish plot. Liberal MT and party leader Douglas MacLeish has used the liberal Ayr paper, The Ayr Post, to create rumors of clan war. His purpose now seems clear: to use the threat of Keith reprisals to bully Queen Julian. Mr. MacLeish has three blustering demands: to be named chief, to have Oa and Mar restored to Clan MacLeish, and to have their traditional pre-1945 title "Lord of the Isles" restored." There is no reason to take these demands seriously, unless he is threatening war.

This is a dangerous game, which could result in great loss of life in the clan lands and the destabilization of the Kingdom of Gunnland.

There are several reports that Douglas MacLeish and Yorc MacAllister, the Mormaer of Finlaggan, met at Ardmar with Harlan Keith this past weekend. If the 'auld alliance' of rebel clans throws their weight behind Douglas's claim, they will need two more votes on the Council of Thegns. But it will be difficult to persuade the Council to ignore the rights of Mark Buchanan Smith, who from a legal standpoint has clear title to inherit the chiefdom from the late MacLeish.

Even before this week's meeting has taken place, however, Mr. MacLeish is already accusing the "corporate money" of the "Buchanan interloper" Mr. Smith of trying to "bribe" the thegns into supporting his "takeover" of Clan MacLeish. The liberal Ayr newspapers that give credence to these demagogic, dangerous claims should be silenced.

Joel C. MacPhail, Editor.

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BUCHANAN-SMITHS AT CENTER OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCANDAL
Connecting a Clan Takeover, Police Desertions, and a Missing Prime Minister

WINDHAVEN. More high-profile resignations came today when the 15AR Inter-Service Office admitted that more than 30 police officers from the National Guard and National Security Service have been receiving pay despite deserting their posts. The resignations included Lar G. MacGusty, the assistant foreign secretary and the highest-ranking woman in the Gunnish government, amid allegations that her cyber-security desk knew that these men were in communication with Padraig B. Smith, the former enquêteur, and traveled to Port Stanley. Leader Blackthorn denied any involvement

"The Buchanan-Smiths are at the center of the deep state that we have not yet rooted out of our government, clearly," said Liberal leader Douglas MacLeish (MT-Dalmyre Seaguard), "and having been swept from Windhaven, they are trying to take control of Clan MacLeish and Her Majesty's realms in Far Himyar." MacLeish referred to Mark B. Smith, the acting president of Lloyd & MacLeish General Maritime Group, whose legal claim to the chieftainship of Clan MacLeish he is challenging. Lloyd & MacLeish released a statement denying that their acting president has any "political connections."

Clan Buchanan, the smallest of the eight armigerous clans, has close ties to Clan Gunn. Mark B. Smith is the uncle of the Gunn chief, Robert Gunn. A business partner of the late Duncan MacLeish, he has inherited a powerful role in Clan MacLeish. A meeting of the Council of Thegns tomorrow may make him Mark MacLeish, the chief of that clan.

The police resignation scandal also implicates Ian B. Smith, the apparently missing prime minister of Port Stanley, an uncle to Mark B. Smith, and a great-uncle to Padraig B. Smith. Mr. MacLeish did not shy away from making severe allegations: "A former disgraced Gunnish official has now brought thirty paramilitaries, until today at the public expense, to find his great-uncle and interfere in the politics of a foreign country. This kind of nepotism and adventurism is what holds Gunnland back."

Mr. MacLeish went on to accuse the government of making Colonel James G. Wilson commanding officer in Crotobaltislavonia in order to intimidate Queen Julian not to support the MacLeish claims to the islands of Oa and Mar. The Gunn-Wilsons currently occupy the ancestral seats of Clan MacLeish on those islands.

 

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QUEEN BROKERS COMPROMISE ON MacLEISH CRISIS;
KENNEDY-MUIR REPORT BLAMES TRIVODNIAN CRIMINALS FOR DUNCAN MacLEISH'S DEATH​

Mark B. Smith has been inphylated into Clan MacLeish and confirmed as its 134th chief, putting an uncle by marriage to Robert Gunn in charge, and shifting the balance of power among the clans decisively in the Gunns' favor.

The Council of Thegns was deadlocked on this controversial question all week. A long-running commercial dispute between Cameron Shipyards and Lloyd & MacLeish GMG put the Camerons on the side of the Keiths and MacAllisters, supporting the claim of Douglas MacLeish to the chiefdom. Queen Julian refused to cast the Gunns' vote to break the 3-3 tie.

Douglas MacLeish renounced his claim, however, when Queen Julian agreed to infeudate Mark MacLeish as Lord of the Isles, returning that most senior and ancient title of the Gunnish peerage to the clan. The title will come with some, but not all, of the historic fiefdom. Queen Julian has pledged to "divide the isles in half by 2020," giving the Lord of the Isles half of the lands now belonging to her great-uncle William Gunn Wilson, the Earl of Tayr, in exchange for an undisclosed sum of talents. The Wilson-Gunns have ruled the isles since 1945, when the Gunns drove the MacLeishes from the isles. Earl William, who has not yet been told the amount of his cash restitution, refused to comment on the queen's decision.

The compromise forestalls a tense situation that bitterly divided Clan MacLeish. Douglas MacLeish told reporters afterwards, "I relinquish my rightful claim to the chiefdom for the good of the clan. Today, Her Majesty has wisely and generously confirmed us in our ancient titles as Lords of the Isles. And even if we shall only receive half of the ancient lands that remain ours by right, this will allow our clan to regroup and rebuild."

Immediately after the compromise was reached, the spokeswoman for the Stone Chair, Madeleine mD. MacNicholls, officially announced that Her Majesty had ordered the release of the Thing's report on the death of the late Chief Duncan MacLeish. Although the onset of war in Trivodnia has made a full investigation impossible, the Kennedy-Muir Report collected evidence from scores of close associates of the chief. Most importantly, the independent report clears former Integrity Party intelligence and police officials Padraig B. Smith and Joseph mD. MacMenna of any involvement in the killing of Duncan MacLeish.

The 900-page report reveals that there is "on balance, very good reason" to conclude that Duncan MacLeish was murdered by an "organized criminal syndicate." After a review of classified materials, MTs Kennedy and Muir insist that there is "zero evidence" that the Gunnish government, its allies, or the government of Trivodnia was involved in his death. The report included hundreds of pages documenting the MacLeish chief's involvement in smuggling and racketeering operations in the Three Seas region, as well as evidence of a "sometimes ultra-violent" rivalry with Yiddish mafia groups and Kretyn gangs over narcotics distribution. The report documents MacLeish's "close working relationship" with Homeland Union leader Moisei Carlebach. The criticism of the Trivodnian government is muted. "There is ample evidence that Mr. MacLeish was at various times living near Amstov under the protection of the Trivodnian government," the section concludes, "but allegations that the Folkist leadership withdrew this protection cannot be substantiated. At this time there is no serious basis for allegations that Trivodnian officials were complicit in the murder of Mr. MacLeish."

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JOINT COMMAND: NW CROTOBALTISLAVONIA DMZ ESTABLISHED
Colonel Wilson Declares "No-Fly Zone"; Fewer Burgundian Sorties Observed

BANJA LUKA. Colonel James G. Wilson, ranking officer of the Joint Northern Allied Command (JNAC), has announced that his joint Gunnish-Geotrian force has "operational control" of most of western Crotobaltislavonia. JNAC forces are restricted from operating within 50km of the Bourgogne border. The primary objective of Operation St. Bartholomew's Day is to stem the crisis of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Crotobaltislavonia, but JNAC has announced that they have completed "twenty percent" of a secondary objective to create a north to south demilitarized zone and dismantling military facilities. The operation has caused the deaths of 27 Gunnish servicemen so far, including 11 that died in an accident when two Schwarzhabicht helicopters collided on the third day of the operation. There are questions about how long the operation will last. Some have seen President Fyodorov's appointment of a new prime minister as a signal that matters are returning to normal in that country.

VIRUMAA SIGNS FRIENDSHIP TREATY WITH THE UNION
Larkin Warns Rurikgrad Pact Membership Might Break SQT

KURESSAARE. Virumaa has moved closer to the Kadikistan with a treaty of friendship that has replaced a 1958 Status Quo Treaty, which many observers in that country see as a first step towards Rurikgrad Pact membership. "While we do not have a formal SQT with the Union, an entente between Ivar and Windhaven is one of the bedrocks of peace in the North," Foreign Secretary Larkin said in a prepared response via telephone, "We have questions about the timing and intentions of the recent diplomatic news." He is in Midweis for a peace summit. The foreign secretary refused to comment further, saying the matter must be raised in the Council of the North.

BLACKTHORN SAID TO UNDERCUT MIDWEIS CONFERENCE
Leader Says Bergenheim "Oblivious" to Communist "Power Surge"

ST. TEARS. In what some saw as a sign of divisions within the Blackthorn administration, Leader James B. Blackthorn questioned the viability of the Midweis Conference in a meeting of the Thing: "It looks like Ivar will dictate the terms of peace in Gallo-Germania at this point. It looks like the Rurikgrad Pact will be a transcontinental communist alliance stretching from the Sea of Touzen to the Sea of Andals. If the future is red, why are we negotiating with the past in Midweis?" Foreign Secretary Larkin has publicly called for a non-aligned pact of buffer states in central Gallo-Germania, but hardliners in his own party have questioned whether it will be possible to remain neutral if Rurikgrad Pact countries continue to encircle Gunnland. Blackthorn's foreign policy stance is unclear, though his comments appeared to undercut Larkin's hopes for the Midweis Conference. The Leader went on to express concern that "communist agents" were using the language of non-alignment but were not independent of Ivar, but did not name the populist neutrality campaigner in Bergenheim, Solomon Lansky.

KADIKISTAN REFUSES AMSTOV'S CONDITIONAL SURRENDER
President Lauterpacht: Gunnish CBS Operation Stalled Burgundians

LAST TIBURIAN EMPEROR DIES IN PYRGOS BOMBING
John VII Dies Hours After Signing Accords to End Civil War

 

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GOVERNMENT INCREASINGLY DIVIDED ON FOREIGN POLICY
FALL OF TRIVODNIA, FALTERING BOURGOGNE SHOCKS GUNNISH THINGMEN​

Bourgogne's abandonment of Trivodnia has shocked all of Gallo-Germania, leaving the Rurikgrad Pact the apparent masters of the continent. Frantic debate in the Thing of All Gunnishmen yesterday revealed that Gunnish statesmen question whether a return to the status quo will be possible, with Bourgogne no longer committed to balancing against Kadikistan, and the Rurikgrad Pact in firm control of Virumaa, Crotobaltislavonia, and Trivodnia.

A powerful leading faction of the Integrity Party is beginning to question neutrality and the possibility of accommodating an increasingly dominant Kadikistan after the war. Its spokesman is Leader James B. Blackthorn, and he has appealed to Liberals who have long argued that Gunnish foreign policy is "irrationally anti-Eiffellandian." Because it cuts across parties, and because the balance of power in Gallo-Germania is so uncertain, the composition and seriousness of the new anti-communist rhetoric in the Thing is difficult to measure.

The Integrity Party is still officially committed to neutrality, with Foreign Secretary Larkin at the Midweis Conference to outline a vision for neutral states after the war. Queen Julian has committed the Kingdom to a "proactive, humanitarian, and neutral" foreign policy. Her leadership has won bipartisan praise from both Integrists and Liberals. Unlike many Gallogermanian nations, Gunnland has emphasized Trivodnia's responsibility for the present war.

Leader Blackthorn has criticized the Midweis Conference, however, arguing that a peace conference without Kadikistan is "absurd." But Blackthorn has also questioned whether a balanced, neutral postwar policy towards the Union will be possible. "The spectacular failure of Bourgogne and the Trier Concord may make Northern neutrality untenable," Blackthorn told the assembled Thingpersons, "The prospect of military coöperation between the Rurikgrad Pact and Virumaa is not a promising sign that we can return to the status quo ante and our long entente with Ivar."

 

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DALMYRE LIBERALS CRITICIZE FOREIGN "ADVENTURISM" AND RISING CRIME​

During the Michaelmas session of the Thing, the Liberals blindsided the Blackthorn Administration by hitting the government hard on illegal narcotics, especially Blud, which they claim are beginning to affect rural Gunnland in "epidemic" proportions. "The military adventure in Crotobaltislavonia has already cost over 9 billion talents," fumed MT Douglas MacLeish (L-Dalmyre), "but I cannot imagine a less effective way to stop the poison, death, and violent crime flooding into the Kingdom."

Under MacLeish, the Liberal Party has made a concerted effort to shed the image of "limousine liberals" from the County of Arundel, powerful MTs that are nationally unpopular like Matthew Ø. Stolmand (L-Ayr) and Catherine mL. Birmingham (L-Ayr). The Liberals have positioned themselves as a more populist opposition from the grittier western metropolis of Dalmyre-Seaguard.

The attacks on the Crotobaltislavonia deployment put the Liberals in a tricky position. Queen Julian is a strong supporter of the humanitarian operation to the south, and the Liberals wish to present themselves as 'the queen's opposition to the Leader.' This has led MacLeish to use a "crime wave" frame when criticizing the Army Council. Other Liberal MTs, like Stolmand, have been more daring, calling Operation Bartholomew's Day a "risky game" meant to "play Ivar's side against Chagny" and "play Trier's side against Ivar."

 

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We have come to view the nation of Gunnland as stable & generally of relatively sound body & mind. We send this general communique hoping it finds your leaders well. If they view with favor the establishing of formal diplomatic relations, we are ready & welcoming.

Felipe Alejandro
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THIRD DIVISION TANK COLUMN ROLLS BACK INTO LOWER MARPESIA
Liberals Criticize t9B Price Tag of Humanitarian Mission to Crotobaltislavonia

VISISLAVA. The first Gunnish tank column crossed the Gunnish-Crotobaltislavonian border northwards, only weeks after being deployed into that country. Queen Julian praised the quick resolution of the conflict, and the Army Council for its role in preventing a humanitarian disaster and "proving Gunnish resolve to pursue peace, not power." Liberals have been critical of the cost of the operation.

"WE'RE NO FLUKE!" MASERU STARS TAKE GAME 1 OF WORLD CLASSIC
Loagin Team Seeks Repeat Championship; St. Tears Bloody Socks Lose At Home

AS FOREIGN CAPITAL FLEES, GUNNLAND SENDS AMBASSADOR TO JUSTOSIA
Despite Political Affinities, Religious Issues Divide Avalon and Windhaven

 

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FYODOROV NIXES GUNNISH DEVELOPMENT PACKAGE; MARKETS TANK
ASEG Opens At 6510, Loses 7% Of Its Value Overnight Amid High Uncertainty

AYR. When a likely trade and commercial agreement with Crotobaltislavonia went south, investors panicked. "This was not just about overland access to southern markets, or a few mines," said Brendan B. MacBoyle, a VP at Mons Pietatis, "It represented investor confidence in the post-Seven Day War peace settlement. Suddenly it looks like the Rurikgrad Pact is closed for business."

The news has brought pressure upon the Blackthorn Administration. "The Leader was grasping for something to pay for the t9 billion boondoggle to Crotobaltislavonia," said MT Douglas MacLeish (L-Dalmyre), "but this time he counted his chickens before they hatched." There have also been sharp, anonymous criticisms from within James B. Blackthorn's ruling Integrity Party.

ARREST OF DALMYRE ARTIST SPARKS PROTESTS, CENSORSHIP DEBATE
Carol MacCraw Jailed For Collage Deemed Offensive to Faith and Morals

DALMYRE-SEAGUARD. A Dalmyre artist has been arrested for displaying a collage in an art museum. The work, "Legs Naturale," is described as a mixed media "bricolage" of Catholic theological writings on lust, which are also read to visitors in a seductive voice on a two-minute loop. Carol mL. MacCraw will be arraigned in Dalmyre-Seaguard. She has been released on bail. "The National Guard received a complaint and took my installation down from the Seaguard Museum of Modern Art," MacCraw said, "and then two NSS men came to my home and arrested me." She denied that local law enforcement was involved. "The Dalmyre-Seaguard constabulary has bigger fish to fry than me, I think," MacCraw said, "This is political."

It is the first major episode of censorship since greater press freedoms were granted six months ago. The office of censor, vacated by Fr. Coemgein Gallagher at the same time, remains empty. But those who hope the days of censorship are over in Gunnland may be naïve. "If we were a German-speaking people, we might have the freedoms that they have in Geotri or Elben," said Professor Ralph Ø. Rhyderch, who studies political science at the Marian University in Windhaven. "But we're a Gunnish speaking people, which is to say part of the Engelshsphere, and we all know that the Engellexian Republic dominates the cultural production on the Internet and over the airwaves, which are therefore full of cultural values that Gunnishpeople find loathsome."

SOKK RÉGIME FENDS OFF WHITE CAMPAIGN ON KURESSAARE
Anti-Communist Insurgency Faces First Major Setback in Virumaa

MacBENACH'S MIRACLE CATCH: BLOODY SOCKS WIN THIRD STRAIGHT
St. Tears Leads Maseru Stars in World Classic 3-1; One Win From Victory

 

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OPINION: ANOTHER ELECTION? BLACKTHORN WILL CRUISE

Walter mA. Matthew​

Another election? There have been more elections in this country the past three years than in the previous decade. I have watched KGB-1 and all the new shows. The anger at the Blackthorn government is real. The investigation into the death of Duncan MacLeish has turned into a politicized fracas with no public trust. They allowed events to overtake them during the Seven Days' War. The "humanitarian" adventure in Crotobaltislavonia cost 14 billion talents. The schiltrons rolled out and rolled home, powerless to stop a communist invasion wave that sent Gallo-Germanian stock markets tumbling. Unemployment and Blud abuse is on the rise.

Despite all this, Douglas MacLeish can't beat James Buchanan Blackthorn next week.

Integrity has governed this nation for all but nine years since 1945. Even if Jake Blackthorn is an adventurer, a fop, and a political novice, he is too likeable to fall. The Liberal MTs are too radical. Not in foreign policy, perhaps, but a new constitution? Shame on Queen Julian for indulging these madmen. Shame on the Church for not condemning this effort. The Book of Gunni has governed this country since the ninth century.

Gunnland may have changed, but it has not changed so much. The business community backs Integrity. They have too much to fear by abandoning his party. If the Ayr financiers and Dalmyre industrialists abandon the party, they will only push it back to its traditional anti-business posture. Blackthorn is the most moderate, most pro-business Integrity leader there has been.

Ignore the polls. No number of new newspapers will convince the Gunnish people to abandon Integrity.

 

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EDITORIAL: THE RADICALISM OF THE LIBERALS' CHRISTMAS AMBUSH

Joel C. MacPhail​

Douglas MacLeish does not understand how the government of this country works. This much is obvious.

Yet every time you turn on the television, they are playing the same old footage of Queen Julian telling Steve Lynn that she is "open" to approving constitutional changes to the Book of Gunni. We see Lynn just beam with delight.

The pro-Liberal media is out to get Leader Blackthorn. Even on KGB-1. They hold a grudge against Integrity, for restricting their "freedom" to flood the airwaves with garbage from Engellex -- yes, for the few restrictions that still remain.

Douglas MacLeish thinks he can win a Liberal majority in the Thing, and then with approval from the Stone Chair, change the way this country has been ruled for more than a thousand years. With thirteen votes and a royal signature!

But guess what? "King and Thing" cannot change the Law of Gunni. It is true, as the Liberals now remind us daily, that the ancient sea-lords' old-fashioned law books contain no clear amendment process, and there are no so-called 'constitutional limits' on 'government power.' But there is one. The Stone Chair represents the clan chiefs. The Thing represents the people. A constitutional change would require the approval of all eight thegns, and a majority in a plebiscite. If the liberals want to change our 1,200-year-old laws, they will have a long road.

Of course the primary obstacle to liberal reform is that Douglas MacLeish will lose the elections -- this Christmas Ambush -- that he has engineered. No matter how many times the media plays the footage of Leader Blackthorn calling Yorc MacAllister a "cattle rustler" (a faux pas to say the least), the Liberals will still lose.

The Douglas MacLeish and his Dalmyre friends can't fool us. The Liberals are local Ayr party, the party of the haute bourgeoisie that has always looked down upon ordinary Gunnishmen. The Liberals are too radical, too opposed to the Church, and too disrespectful of our culture and history to win.

 

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EDITORIAL: QUEEN AND CHURCH HAVE ABANDONED THE PARTY. IT DOESN'T MATTER.

Walter mA. Matthew
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I am not the only one that has noticed that Queen Julian supports the Liberals. "Open" to constitutional reform? Naïve, that's what she is. Maddie MacNicholls can say that the Stone Chair does not involve itself in Thing elections till she is blue in the face. King Josias made no bones about it. Since 1975, the Integrity Party has been the Thing. The Thing has supported the King and the King has supported the King. Why does his daughter despise the party that has been so loyal to her family?

Queen Julian has an Eiffelland education. That's the problem in a nutshell. She sees the world like a Southerner. Her Majesty does not understand loyalty. The Integrity Party could have been one of the great ruling parties of Europe, like the Nationalist Right Bloc in Justosia. (Only loyal to the Church.) But loyalty to Clan Gunn has always kept the Integrity Party from being a completely national party. And how has our loyalty been repaid...?

Speaking of the Church, Archbishop Woodstone has remained silent, even as the Liberals rail against the four pillars of Gunnish society: army, church, family, and school. The late cardinal, Henry Cardinal Stewart, would have fought these creeping apostates tooth and nail. Of course the archbishop wants a red hat from John XXIII, and may not want to become too controversial before that happens. And so the party is abandoned by not only the queen, but also the Church.

It doesn't matter. The new newspapers are convinced that the Liberals will win. They are convinced that 2019 is the Year of the Woman in Gunnland, whatever that means. They are convinced that on the economy, on foreign policy, they now represent what is sensible. Momentum and the march for freedom is on their side.

We shall see what happens when the Liberals win only five seats in the Thing next week.

 

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Whilst unorthodox for me to make communiques internationale, I feel I must. The Advocate's & Mr. Matthews' praise warms my heart as it does my fellow nationalist senators. I must however make some things clear. While we are personally monarchists who support & love our sovereign, we are in fact independent of the Milenio Royal Palace. While we are Episcops as well personally, we are independent of the church as well. Indeed we are right in every sense of the word, independently.

That aside, we convey our warmest wishes to Her Majesty & your ruling right party. May we together hold the line against the Red Menance & its radical republican cousins bent on destroying our righteous way of life. Viva Justosia. Viva Francisco.

Marco Reyes
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Nationalist Right Bloc Conference Chairman

(The opposite of the former is true. The NRB is known as "The King's Party". While true privately, they reject the label publicly for obvious reasons.)

 

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EDITORIAL: BLAME AYR, NOT WINDHAVEN FOR ECONOMY

Andrew C. Strachan
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Throughout the campaign cycle, the Liberals have reminded the voters that the ASEG has lost 20% of its value, unemployment beginning to creep up, the value of the Gunnish Talent has dropped even against the Eiffellandian Unionsmark. The Liberals point the finger at the Blackthorn government.

The truth is that the Liberals have trapped Gunnland in its current economic quandary.

To stimulate our economy, we need to stanch inflation and restore currency stability by pegging the talent to a basket of currencies that represent our biggest trading partners, the Moches, Elben Mark, and Unionsmark. Only then can we expand the money supply without further devaluing the talent. This is how the justly celebrated Amittai mL. Duff engineered our economy recovery in the 1980s.

But this tried-and-true stimulus plan requires capital controls, both keeping Gunnish investment from leaving the country and also making sure foreign-direct investment stays in this country. But the Liberals oppose these controls. They don't want to engineer a recovery using recycled Integrity-Party economic programs. And key Liberal supporters, the currency traders and hedge fund managers, make too much money off hot money flowing in and out of Ayr.

The Liberals are preventing the economic recovery that we need, and blaming the Blackthorn government for not providing it.

 

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WHAT HAPPENED IN PORT STANLEY? UNSETTLING DETAILS EMERGE
Integrity Hardliners Involved in Nasty Himyari Politics, Stephen K. Lynn Reports

CHINDE. Port Stanley like Gunnland is a country struggling to emerge from its past. Like Gunnland, this former Marpesian colony is ruled by an educated woman facing an uphill battle in a traditional society. Dr. Octavia Butler is the first woman the first black Stanlean to become prime minister. She has dedicated her life to building a new Port Stanley after centuries of white rule, one where Christians and Muslims, blacks and whites, live in harmony. But vast inequalities still remain.

So what were prominent Integrity-Party hardliners doing in this country at the end of last year? Padraig B. Smith and Walter mA. Matthew are now back in Gunnland. Both are campaigning for their old Thing seats that they lost in 2018, Smith for his fellow attorneys to elect him enquêteur; Matthew for his old seat in the highlands.

The details are not clear, but many Stanleans think that a violent struggle for power ensued after the death of longtime prime minister Ian B. Smith in Fort Smith last year. In a brief interview, Dr. Butler told me that the transition of power to her United Development Party was peaceful, and she thanked Queen Julian for sending a special envoy, Robert Gunn, Duke of Clyth and chief of this country's powerful royal clan, to broker the transfer of power without violence.

But MT Douglas MacLeish (L-Dalmyre-Seaguard) obtained documents that show Reiver special forces teams were sent from Gunnland to the wild north country of Port Stanley on clearance from the Blackthorn Administration. It is likely that Smith led an effort to keep power out of the hands of the white-rule Commonwealth League. The Foreign Office denies these claims, but this is part of the lack of transparency and dangerous foreign adventurism that has unfortunately characterized the Blackthorn Administration.

Rumors circulate in Windhaven that Queen Julian sent Robert Gunn to Himyar because he was interfering too much with her politics at home. He is living in a gated compound in Chinde, in secrecy and luxury. Neighbors say when the Gunn leaves the house, he is inseperable a black servant-girl many years his junior. He refused comment. But make no mistake: the Gunn and his friends are enemies of democracy that bring disgrace upon a modernizing Gunnland.

LOWER-MARPESIANS BACK LIBERAL CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS
Current Thing Elections Disenfranchise Îls-des-Pins, Francophone Areas

YEAR OF THE WOMAN? LADY-CANDIDATES MAY WIN 10 THING-SEATS
Perpetua mL. Aodh, 18, Cites the Inspiration of Her Friend Queen Julian

LIBERAL PARTY UNVEILS NEW 7-POINT ECONOMIC RECOVERY PLAN
MacLeish: "Integrity's Dark-Ages Economics Don't Fit a Modern Economy"

EDITORIAL: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE LIBERALS' RURAL CANDIDATES
Urban Landslides Predicted, But Exciting Candidates Will Belie Rural "Hump"

 

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CAPITULATION AT HAND? INTEGRITY CANDIDATES DROP FROM KEY RACES
Foreign Secretary Abandons Campaign; Independent Candidates Promise New Diversity

WINDHAVEN. Foreign Secretary Stephen G. Larkin, MT (I-Windhaven-East March) has announced he will no longer seek reëlection. He was trailing badly in the polls to his Liberal challenger, Samuel G. Wilson, a former Integrity MT. Andrew C. Strachan, considered a longshot Integrity challenger for the isles seat that Harlan Keith (L-Mar) has held for almost thirty years, has also suspended his campaign.

While conservative Integrity politicians throw the towel in, a rush of interesting and diverse independent candidates have filed to get on the rolls in the last minute. They include the first black Nethian-Gunnish candidate, Oritsematosan Udomo (born in Port Stanley), and the first Touyouan-Gunnish candidate, Hana Wu (born to Seoran parents in Warre), to run for the Thing. Both are women. Even if they do not win, this signals a more inclusive and diverse Gunnland is just over the horizon.

Since Lower Marpesians still are not represented in the Thing, many professors at the Marian have indicated that they are eager to give at least some of the four university seats to Francophone professors originally from Îls-des-Pins in protest of this situation.

Even if Integrity receives its traditional support from the two unelected Army Council seats and three of the four unelected seats reserved from the Church, it looks less and less likely that the longtime ruling party has any shot whatsoever of patching together the thirteen-vote majority to elect the next Leader of the Thing.

 

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Office of the Foreign Minister
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The Great Southern Kingdom of Justosia is very heartened to see the re-emergence of Gunnland to the internationale stage. Know that we still consider you our right & honourable ally.

On behalf of my Sovereign King Carlos Francisco II, warmest wishes to HRM Queen Julian & your Integrity Party. Viva Justosia.

Fernando Torres
Foreign Minister