Delegation Game #13: Foch's Five Pillars
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
As the Conference at London works towards several compromises, we tune in to some new arrivals, some storm conference scenes, and a weighted meeting between the President Marshal, Ferdinand Foch, and the delegation of British, Swiss and Spanish delegates sent to meet him. They would arrive in Foch's office uncertain of precisely what to expect, but they would leave with yet another proposal...
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm going to Hello and welcome, dear delegates to episode 13 of the delegation game. |
| 0:29.9 | In the last episode, we met Premier Puanqueray. |
| 0:32.4 | We watched the Council for Russian Freedoms convene for the first time. |
| 0:36.5 | We heard some incredible speeches from the Dominions, |
| 0:39.2 | and we just generally watched the conference go by in relative harmony. |
| 0:45.1 | This week our episode contains an awful lot of pieces. |
| 0:48.4 | First and foremost, we're joined by a new delegate, Mr. Owen Lind of Newfoundland. |
| 0:53.0 | So welcome to our world, Mr. Lind. I'm sure you'll feel |
| 0:55.9 | right at home next door to Arthur McCallville. The neutral nations were awarded restitution. |
| 1:01.3 | The racial equality proposal from last week failed to pass by a single vote. But our main event is |
| 1:07.4 | arguably the delegation which Alistair T Tankred has led to the President Marshall |
| 1:12.8 | Ferdinand Foch. Tank Red, joined by neutral Swiss and Spanish delegates, seek to modify |
| 1:18.5 | Fosch's red lines, and they'll find the President Marshall more than willing to treat, |
| 1:23.3 | since Fosch wants some concessions of his own. Tank Red reveals a pact with Spain. |
| 1:29.4 | Tank Red gets recommended for the Order of the Garter. |
| 1:32.1 | Tank Red weeps. |
| 1:33.3 | That man gets up to an awful lot in this episode, doesn't he? |
| 1:36.3 | The Minor Council picks up the pieces. |
| 1:38.2 | We see the minor powers deal with the fallout of several questions, as well as their own rivalries. |
| 1:43.1 | How will the Polish, Hungarian, |
| 1:45.1 | Romanian, and Czech delegates react to the expansion of Fosha's Continental Defense Accord, |
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