Our United Nations
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a. if there is a third world war, that at least there is no assured mutual self-destruction
Atomic Peace and Indochina War
While the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission decided upon a solely peaceful use of atomic energy, even if some Americans and Chinese, as well as some Japanese argued the dropping of two bombs had shortened the Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War significiantly and overall saved many lives otherwise lost from continued fighting in China, Southeast Asia, or the Invasion of the Japanese Home Islands. Without an overall ban of atomic power and energy in general, both militarily and civil, the Americans agreed to give up their own nuclear arsenal, under the condition the Soviet Union’s nuclear program would be United Nations (inclusion American observers) controlled. To this Stalin objected, as well as other high-ranking Soviet Union government and military leaders, claiming the Capitalist Imperialists of the United States could use such opportunity to sabotage them and should instead give up their own arsenal right now, instead of waiting for UN control of Soviet Nuclear Energy and use, while at the same time demanding on the basis of transparency and fairness that Soviet observers would be allowed in United States nuclear facilities to ensure the Americans were not secretly continuing to build more bombs, which naturally the Americans opposed. At the same time neither side seamed to truly trust a UN observer control without their own observers be part of such a procedure it seamed.
In the meantime, according to treaties, British withdraw their last troops from Persia, something the Soviet Union refuses to do equally from Northern Persia under the claim that doing so would threaten the independence of the local Azerbaijan and Kurdish People’s Republics. Meanwhile Ho Chi Minh is elected leader of the Communist Party of Indochina (CPI), an umbrella organization for communist and socialist parties in Annam, Cambodia, Cochinchina, Laos and Tonking who wish to eliminate the local aristocratic monarchic, democratic republican and capitalist rule to establish local ethnic people’s republics of their own and in the dreams of Ho Chi Minh, a united Indochinese People’s Union (IPU) to better defend themselves against influence from the Kuomintang lead Nationalist Chinese Republic. Three days later Churchill says in a speech at Westminster College that an Iron Curtain is faling over Soviet Union Controlled Eastern Europe, South Asia and East Asia. Less then a week after his announcement as Chairman, Leader and President of the CPI and IPU, Ho Chi Minh leads guerrilla forces to attack government and military facilities in Tonking and Annam were his supporter and militia base is strongest, while Cambodia and Cochinchina only has a minor militia force operating within, cut off from the rest and Laos remain unaffected for now at least. So while Reunion, Martinique, Guadalupe and Guinea become overseas departments of France and the United Kingdom grants the British Protectorate that was the Emirate of Transjordan independence, hoping that local Arab and Jewish populations would coexist in the Western and Eastern parts, the War in Indochina starts.
Indochina War:
A) Try to find a peaceful solution.
B) Allow British and French troops to remain to fight the rebels.
C) Send UN forces to aid the French in Indochina, as the British and Dutch are allready occupied in Indonesia.
D) Rearm and send back in some of the former Japanese Garrison forces not yet send back to Japan.
E) Don't do anything for now.
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Also brianstorming ideas for what to do on the USA and SU refusal to allow overall UN inspectors as long as the other side is invovled.
A) Try to find a peaceful solution.
B) Allow British and French troops to remain to fight the rebels.
C) Send UN forces to aid the French in Indochina, as the British and Dutch are allready occupied in Indonesia.
D) Rearm and send back in some of the former Japanese Garrison forces not yet send back to Japan.
E) Don't do anything for now.
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Also brianstorming ideas for what to do on the USA and SU refusal to allow overall UN inspectors as long as the other side is invovled.
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I suspect they'll just keep glaring at each other, whilst everyone else just tries to shuffle away.
Maybe they will come to an agreement on a limited nuclear arsenal? Maybe? Possibly?
The question is how limited, measured on what and by whom and who then to control it overall? Even UN control would not be the best, otpional solution.
Second World War War Crimes
In the Indochina War the United Nations attempted to find a peaceful solution between both sides and to ensure exactly that mixed UN forces were send to aid the local French forces, as the British and Dutch were still fighting in Indonesia, but at the same time not all former Japanese Garrison forces returned, as the local governments tried to enlist some as mercenaries and others stayed behind joining the Guerrilla forces uprising against them and the return of European rule, just like some had done in Indonesia, so that while Japan was defeated, so would be the former European Colonial Empires the Japanese had tried to take over. At the same time the reluctance of the USA and the SU to allow UN inspectors to overview their nuclear programs became more and more diplomatic problematic, the more other nations interested in the technology and using in according to the regulation put diplomatic and partial even economic pressure onto them. Reluctantly the United States and the Soviet Union would ultimately agree later on and at least also accept their own allies, who were UN members to serve as UN inspectors of their nuclear facilities. Meanwhile the Aleute Islands were struck by an Earthquake and the Malayan Union formed, as the trade city of Singapore became a cronw colony of the British Empire. Meanwhile in the Philippines the Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed as the one responsible for the Bataan Death March. Malta received a tragedy when an Air Arm Fleet collided above a residential area, killing crew members and a dozen civilians on the ground alike. For the first time the Japanese Republic, following the northern Hokkaido “Japanese-Ainu” People’s Republic who had done so a months earlier, women were allowed to vote for the first time in elections for the House of Representatives and the Imperial Diet, the People’s Diet in Hokkaido.
At the same time members of the Nakam, the Jewish Avengers managed to poison food supplies in Nuremberg and kill of a large portion of a SS Prisoner of War Stalag XIII-D, resulting in some investigation, but the majority of the group had already left Germany when concrete clues were analyzed. Meanwhile Syria, meaning Greater Syria, including Lebanon gains independence from France and hopes to be officially recognized by the United Nations, something the United States and the Soviet Union out compete with each other to do, so to start good relations with newly independent nation states the first and sway them into a more Western Capitalist, or Eastern Communist direction. With the establishment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and other United Nations Organizations formally, the League of Nations finally hold’s it’s last meeting and disbands itself, transferring it’s mission to the United Nations in hopes it would handle things in the future better then the League of Nations had done before. The Unites States meanwhile recognized Josip Broz Tito’s government over all of Yugoslavia, quickly followed by other Western Powers like Britain and France, to completely break the Yugoslavian United People’s Republics out of the Eastern Block, away from Stalin’s Moscow and Soviet Union influence by doing so, which results in Stalin secretly increasing support for the local Socialist and Communist anti-Serbian rebel cells inside of Yugoslavia. Meanwhile the Swiss establish Pestalozzi Children's Village (Kinderdorf Pestalozzi) as a means to house and educate orphans of the Second World War according to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi’s principles. Shortly after the Tokyo War Trials for crimes in the Chinese, Asian and Pacific Theatre of the Second World War begin, accusing especial the Imperial Japanese Military leadership, like Hideki Tojo, Shigenori Togo and Hiroshi Oshima.
Accept Syria as a UN member:
A) Yes accept Greater Syria.
B) Accept Syria and Lebanon.
C) Let each nation state of the UN choose to accept them as independent themselves.
A) Yes accept Greater Syria.
B) Accept Syria and Lebanon.
C) Let each nation state of the UN choose to accept them as independent themselves.
A - but provisionally. With an option for Lebanon to decide on whether to become independent itself later.