Diário de Lisboa
- A decree against hoarding
- Portugal
The verified passages connect domestic provisioning with Portugal’s international position. One reports a decree requiring producers, traders, and warehouse operators to declare stocks, describing the measure as a response to hoarding and price speculation. The central article reports Portugal’s failure to gain a temporary Council seat with 16 votes and portrays Bettencourt Rodrigues as unsurprised because the great powers’ preferred list excluded Portugal. Only these opening passages have been read.
Partial visual transcription of the first paragraph on the agriculture decree and the opening two paragraphs of “Portugal”; subsequent text is outside the verified range.
Translation
A decree against hoarding
To prevent the hoarding of essential goods and the speculation already taking shape through the sharp and excessive rise in prices of some goods, the Government Gazette today publishes a decree from the Ministry of Agriculture requiring all producers, traders, and warehouse operators to declare their stocks, whether in storage or in transit.
Portugal
Portugal
The Assembly had ended. Portugal had not been elected as a temporary member of the Council, having received only 16 votes.
Dr. Bettencourt Rodrigues is neither worried nor surprised. It was perfectly well known from the previous day that the list approved by the great powers would be endorsed by the Assembly, and Portugal was not among that number.
Context
Making hidden stocks visible
The decree’s first instrument is compulsory disclosure. Requiring producers, traders and warehouse operators to report stocks, including goods in transit, would allow authorities to see supplies across the distribution chain. That information matters when rising prices are blamed on withholding goods rather than simply on a poor harvest.
Why a Council seat was valuable
The League Council handled matters affecting peace and met more frequently than the Assembly. Its elected seats gave states beyond the permanent great-power members a place in that continuing work. Portugal’s unsuccessful bid was therefore about influence in a smaller decision-making body, not its membership of the League itself.
Formal election and prior agreement
The article presents the Assembly vote as confirmation of a list already accepted by the great powers. That is the source of its resigned tone. A formally open election can still be shaped by negotiations before the ballot; the reported 16 votes measure Portugal’s support after those alignments had formed.
Original
A FIM de evitar o açambarcamento
A FIM de evitar o açambarcamento dos generos de primeira necessidade e a especulação que se está já esboçando pela subida e exagerada elevação dos preços de alguns generos, o Diario do Governo publica hoje um decreto, pelo ministerio da Agricultura, obrigando todos os produtores, comerciantes e armazenistas a declarar as suas existencias, em armazem, quer em transito.
PORTUGAL
PORTUGAL
A assembleia tinha terminado. Portugal não fôra eleito para membro provisorio do Conselho, porque tivera apenas 16 votos.
O sr. dr. Bettencourt Rodrigues não está preocupado nem surpreendido. Sabia-se perfeitamente, desde a vespera, que a lista aprovada pelas grandes potencias seria sancionada pela assembleia e Portugal não entrava nesse numero.