OTO Delegation Criticized as “Ashen Faced”, “Humiliated” After Soviets Display Captured Arms In League Congress

Just minutes after the Soviet delegation was recognized in the League of Nations General Assembly, angry shouting echoed across the Chamber as their evidence was presented for the official record: tens of thousands of small arms, missiles, and two heavy tanks.

American delegates later called it a “circus,” the French, “du théâtre,” but it made for a damning backdrop as the Soviet delegate presented “The Threat to Peace Posed by the Intermarium's Sponsorship of Piracy.” The arms and tanks, he claimed, were all of Intermarium origin.

The arsenal assembled for the General Assembly, he continued, was the contents of just one shipping container, among the hundreds of thousands intercepted by the Comintern, bound for “violent mercenaries, privateers, rebels, and guerrillas across the Orion Arm.”

A holographic presentation followed, overwhelming in its thoroughness as a litany of schedules, manifests and footage built the case that the Intermarium Commonwealth had, possibly for decades, secretly supplied vast stores of arms to anti-communist and anti-fascist groups.

Modernized Intermarium export-grade equipment, tailored for use by violent non-state actors, dominated those reportedly seized. Mixed in were refurbished pieces from older generations, clandestinely diverted into the caches of a variety of independent armies and insurgents.

Yet the Soviet delegate stressed that some items, like the heavy tanks, were of foreign origin, in this case Indian, but were refurbished by the Intermarium and then treated to pass as if they bore the subtle hallmarks of Reich refurbishment, an effort to throw blame on Berlin.

This, they concluded, was a deliberate disguise to conceal their true provenance. The speech was met by strong applause from Comintern members, but also notably the Axis and even Sphere or independent states.

In response, the Intermarium delegate seemed to falter, appearing tired and sluggish while suggesting the Soviet claims were a “fundamental and gross mischaracterization of publicly available facts” and the latest in a series of unfounded accusations.

OTO appeared similarly shaken, with successive friendly delegations largely unable to protest the Intermarium innocence with anything other than broad statements and repeated rhetoric. OTO's willingness to overlook the Intermarium's vast efforts seemed almost palpable.