It outlaws the closed shop, permits union shops only where legal under state law and with worker approval; requires 60 day strike notification; authorizes federal strike injunctions when a strike might imperil national safety; changes the definition of unfair labour practices; goes into lots and lots of unfair union practices; all but does away with union political contributions; and outlaws jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. Despite Darlan's rhetoric of a "Révolution culturelle" to purge the un-French elements, especially Communists and fascists, from the newly-liberated Republic, the purges are really a way to eliminate anyone who remembers too strongly that Francois Darlan himself was the arch-collaborationist extraordinarie, along with anyone who might politically oppose him in the post-war era. But that's for the future: in Vladivostok, Stalin has assembled a force of around 2,500 light infantry; the heaviest weapon anyone is likely to have will be American bazookas, though a single company of T-34s will come along for the ride. There's also no question for the American government about the use of the next atomic bomb, either. There's no question, of course, about moving mustard gas to the front, or using it against the Waffen SS in the chase back to Berlin, using loaned American tactical bombers and even B-29s.
Life hasn't changed terribly much since the war began; while it is barely within the range of bombers from the Aleutians, there's nothing there to bomb. The Heydrich government (which is fighting a violent civil war between Erich von Manstein's Home Army and Heydrich's SS) refuses to negotiate at all in the hastily-organized conference in Geneva, while Guderian gets bogged down in the Franco-Soviet demands. With the well-being of all humanity at stake, the establishment of Korean independence is a grave issue that transcends mere animosity between two nations. He did exceptionally well with his 'rent-a-troop' business. The Soviets, meanwhile, are only waiting for resources to arrive; Stalin has shifted an a large, heavily armored army to the Manchurian border, ready to drive the Japanese all the way into the sea at the southern tip of Korea, as well as make sure Mao Zedong wins out in China. Only the personal leadership of General Korechika Anami, Prime Minister since Tojo's fall after the American conquest of Formosa, has kept the nation's fighting spirit going on, defeat after defeat after defeat.
Only solid German architecture, brick and stone and steel, keeps the city from being shattered and thousands more dying. But, being opposed to hundreds of thousands of Americans and even more Japanese dying in an invasion, the Taft administration prefers to wait. Of course, in an actual invasion, even against lightly defended and invaded Hokkaido, they'll be killed, probably while still on the beaches. Ron Paul is carving-up Newt and all the other neocons. In a matters of moments, as Eicke shouted "Kill all the traitors!", Field Marshals Walter von Blomberg, Walter von Reichenau, and Fedor von Bock were dead, shot in the back as they managed to tear the lock off the door. And, perhaps the most obvious, what if he'd succeeded outright? But this is Stalinist USSR, what have they to complain about? This was the first transaction between a Rothschild and a head of state. Despite the terrain and season, the Soviet advance is quick and violent, the Kwangtung Army has been largely evacuated to the Home Islands, except for those tens of thousands sunk by American submarines in the Sea of Japan. Contrary to wartime American and Allied projections, Japanese morale in the last days of 1945 is abominable.
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