Arilou - Excellent.
Bafflegab - It is surprising how much this monster has grown, 50 posts and a 1000 views was nearer my original expectations!
Europe is indeed in turmoil, I felt it was most unfair that some people got off lightly. Far better to spread it around.
Lord Strange - Glad my hard work is paying off!
(In truth I'd do it anyway, but far better to be appreciated for it as well)
C&D - Well Free Trade when no-one else is doing it certainly can be messy. Especially when you're keeping your currency artificially high.
As to Belgium I agree completely, I did read an article a while ago postulating there were very few actual Belgians, instead mostly Walloons and Flemings who happened to have passports with that nationality on it. Now that's probably an over-exaggeration, but there's probably a grain of truth in it.
Sir Humphrey - Astute as ever Sir H. Ireland is indeed heading for trouble, historically the mid-1930s were horrific in Ireland even with the Coal-Cattle Pact in place (the actual trade war didn't end till 1938 when the Irish paid up the annuities in a lump sum but got the treaty ports back).
In this timeline de Valera has taken that lifeline away, without it the farming industry is going to vanish - Britain was responsible for over 90% of all Irish trade before the tariffs went up, that just can't be quickly replaced. With mass unemployment and the economy decimated it's ripe for extremist, and there's no shortage of interesting groups.
Faeelin - As I understand it France was fairly committed to an intact Belgium, while the Flemish fascists wanted cession (a greater Holland technically). That's a fairly unresolvable difference which isn't going to promote good feeling.
On a related point as AF says much of the military was indeed Francophobic but not fascist.
Ignoring all that I didn't actually mean to imply the fascist parties were Franco-phobic, just that they co-operated with the parts of the military that were to end the alliance with France. Clearly I must tighten up my phrasing.
Atlantic Friend - You do have to admire such epic mistakes, to get something wrong is one thing. To get it so wrong that you make it significantly harder to correct your own error takes some doing.
C&D - The explanation I heard was that the Belgian military didn't rate the 'untested' Dutch army (as they hadn't fought in the Great War) so wouldn't work with such 'amateurs'.
See my reply to AF for my thoughts on that decision.
yourworstnightm - When you put it that way I could have just written 'As usual' for most of those countries and it would convey the same general idea.
Vann the Red - Substantial but satisfying I hope. Your hunch is correct thus far, all the European fascists movements are somewhat more influential than TTL. Of course in many cases that's starting from a very low base so don't expect revolution, equally only economic recovery is going to kill them off (massive generalisation there I accept) and that isn't on the cards either.
C&D - All good points and he's not going to storm to power in the 1937 elections. That said unless things pick up they will increase their share of the vote - bad times are always good for extremists.