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requested by Mrs. Kennedy without the sanction of the White House. At the meeting’s conclusion, the Ambassador announced an agreement to release all 140 crew members of the nuclear submarine USS John Marshall as a sign of goodwill toward the people of New England. The submarine would remain in FCU custody, however, since a detailed investigation failed to find any defects in the submarine’s guidance systems, proving the sub was in French-Canadian territorial waters illegally rather than by accident.
                  As might be expected, news of the soldiers’ release was met with enthusiasm by New Englanders, who have fretted for so long over their lost comrades. Reaction from the White House was subdued, since the First Lady’s success underscores the Kennedy Administration’s failure, and the submarine remains lost to the FCU along with its valuable secrets.
     
    BOSTON GLOBE, USNE –October 23, 1963
                  Secretary of Defense Peter Blanc announced today sweeping plans for the reorganization of intelligence and logistic functions of the Pentagon into two centralized agencies, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Defense Logistics Agency. Such changes would consolidate programs with an eye toward improving overall efficiency. Blanc also provided a list of bases and installations under review for closure as unnecessary to national security.
                  Lastly, but perhaps most significantly, Blanc announced the withdrawal of US military “advisory forces” from Vietnam, describing the situation as “strategically untenable” and “a quagmire that will only squander US resources and New Englander lives.”
                  Despite concerns by the Joint Chiefs of Staff over lines of communication among branches of the military, the New England civilian population appears to have embraced these policies, bringing a welcome reprieve to all the public protesting.
     
    NEW YORK TIMES, USNE –January 13, 1964
                  The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to meet in three days in Paris, France to discuss various matters of international peace, including nuclear proliferation, escalating tensions along ‘Le Mur’ between the US and FCU, the Soviet Union’s amassing of nuclear weapons, and problems of terrorism plaguing the Mississippi Passage.
                  President Kennedy has made no secret of his intention to seek sanctions against Louisianne for what he has termed “repetitive casual acts of war” while renewing his demand for the return of the ill-fated New England submarine. Our hopes go with the President.
     
LE QUEBEC CHRONICLE, FCU –January 19, 1964
                  Victory ! In a bold stroke of military genius orchestrated by the great French general, le maréchal Leclerc, the United States of New England surrendered to French-Canadian and Louisianne forces this morning following a carefully coordinated invasion.
                  Takeover of the US airwaves has, with the help of Jacqueline Kennedy-Bouvier, communicated to the New England populace that there was no need for panic, to remain indoors until further notice, and that only the current government would be impacted.
                  The largely bloodless coup d'état resulted in the destruction of the Pentagon in Philadelphia, with the presumed deaths of the New England Joint Chiefs of Staff and their staff members, who refused surrender. Local rioting was quickly quelled at the behest of Mme Bouvier and her aides.
                  The timing of the coup was crucial. With JFK at the UN summit, Parisian agents were able to prevent contact between the White House and the New England president when the invasion began. Vice President McIntire and Secretary of Defense Blanc, both secret agents of the FCU, ordered the Joint Chiefs to stand down, while the recent reorganization in USNE military