5.2.2. Individual Directives: work in the same fashion as committee directives, but they are secretive actions taken by that country alone. They are not revealed to committee unless desired and are passed solely at the discretion of the Executive Board. Used effectively, such directives are very powerful tools to leverage favour of the committee towards a particular goal while furthering one’s personal interest. An instance of an individual directive at an actual MUN conference involved a naval chief in Hitler’s war cabinet passing a directive to destroy one of his own battleships off the coast of Danzig (a very important port stripped from the Germans and internationalised by the Treaty of Versailles) and make it appear as if it were bombed by the Polish in a time of peace. Thus, he misled committee into thinking that the Polish waged war on Germany, sanctioned funds for expanding the navy (again illegalised by the Treaty) and attained a casus belli for waging war. A good directive has:
5.2.2. Individual Directives: work in the same fashion as committee directives, but they are secretive actions taken by that country alone. They are not revealed to committee unless desired and are passed solely at the discretion of the Executive Board. Used effectively, such directives are very powerful tools to leverage favour of the committee towards a particular goal while furthering one’s personal interest. An instance of an individual directive at an actual MUN conference involved a naval chief in Hitler’s war cabinet passing a directive to destroy one of his own battleships off the coast of Danzig (a very important port stripped from the Germans and internationalised by the Treaty of Versailles) and make it appear as if it were bombed by the Polish in a time of peace. Thus, he misled committee into thinking that the Polish waged war on Germany, sanctioned funds for expanding the navy (again illegalised by the Treaty) and attained a casus belli for waging war. A good directive has:
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