Crítica
- Franco-German understanding serves Europe’s peace and progress
- —Twelve circus beasts went out on a “spree.”
- Spain sends condolences to Paraguay
Crítica’s selected articles move from hopes for European reconciliation to a comic animal escapade and a message of mourning. Stresemann calls rapprochement with France both possible and necessary for a continent facing ruin. Twelve escaped circus beasts become pleasure-seekers in a playful account of raids on shops and a café. A dispatch from Asunción reports Spain’s condolences to Paraguay and announces six Spanish deaths and six injuries in Encarnación.
Translation
Franco-German understanding serves Europe’s peace and progress
STRESEMANN DECLARES THAT FRANCO-GERMAN UNDERSTANDING IS POSSIBLE AND EVEN NECESSARY
The German chancellor added that there is one point on which he and Briand agree: the two peoples must be brought closer together for the good of Europe, a continent “on the brink of ruin.”
—Twelve circus beasts went out on a “spree.”
The beasts of a circus in Valenciennes went out on the town last night. Eight lions, two tigers and two bears, bored with slavery in their cages and excessive work in the ring, decided to let loose, and did so without asking permission. One tiger headed for a butcher’s shop, where it ate a lamb and then lay down to sleep; one of the lions went to a café, naturally terrifying the customers; another lion smashed a hat shop’s window and, making itself a bed of hats, also lay down to sleep. The rest went wandering off, probably to visit the town’s pleasure districts.
Human decline is more than a mere symptom; the beasts are gradually gaining the upper hand... The day will come when, at vermouth time, the customer at the table opposite you in the café will be a
Spain sends condolences to Paraguay
Spain sends condolences to Paraguay
(Agencia Austral)
ASUNCIÓN, 21. — The Spanish minister has sent the Foreign Ministry a note transcribing a heartfelt telegram of condolence from his government over the catastrophe in Encarnación.
The Spanish Legation also announces that six Spanish subjects have died in Encarnación and another six have been injured.
Context
Thoiry’s bargain behind the appeal for rapprochement
The immediate diplomatic setting was the September 17, 1926 meeting at Thoiry, following Germany’s admission to the League of Nations. Stresemann offered financial support for stabilizing the franc; Briand agreed in principle to concessions over the Saar, Rhineland occupation and military supervision. Government objections subsequently narrowed the proposals. These negotiations give concrete stakes to the excerpt’s appeal to bring the two peoples together: financial stabilization and Germany’s recovery of authority over its territory were being discussed together. Stresemann’s insistence that rapprochement was necessary presents the political case for pursuing those goals.
Why League membership mattered to Locarno
The connection between reconciliation and Germany’s League membership had a legal basis. Article 10 of the Locarno guarantee treaty made its entry into force conditional on both the deposit of all ratifications and Germany becoming a League member. The treaty bears Stresemann’s and Briand’s signatures. Germany’s admission therefore formed part of the machinery for putting the negotiated peace arrangements into operation. This helps explain why the September discussion of rapprochement carried institutional significance alongside the excerpt’s broader language about Europe’s peace and progress.
Diplomatic condolences and emergency shelter
The Spanish response described here consisted of transmitting governmental condolences and announcing casualties among Spanish subjects. A separate contemporary report shows another diplomatic response to the same catastrophe: La Tarde of September 21, 1926 described Argentina’s vice-consul assisting wounded people and entire families at the consulate, whose building had remained standing, and telegraphing his government. Read together, the reports show diplomatic representatives communicating the disaster’s human cost to governments while a surviving consular building provided a place for immediate assistance. Crítica’s notice connects the catastrophe to Spain through its affected subjects; La Tarde’s account shows the Argentine vice-consulate’s role on the ground.
Original
LA ENTENTE FRANCO ALEMANA ES CONVENIENTE PARA LA TRANQUILIDAD Y PROGRESO DE EUROPA |
STRESEMANN ASEGURA QUE LA ;
ENTENTE FRANCO ALEMANA ES
POSIBLE Y HASTA NECESARIA
El canciller alemán agregó que hay un punto en que están
de acuerdo con Briand, y es el de que hay que acercar a los
¡dos pueblos para bien de Eur opa, continente que se halla
| al bordede la ruina”
—Doce fieras de un circo se fueron de “farra”.
Las fieras de un circo de Valenciennes
o o anoche de garufa. Ocho leones, dos tigres y dos osos, aburridos de
la esclavitu3 en lan jaulas y del excesivo
Miabajo en la pista, decidieron salir a
echar una cana al aire y así lo hicieron.
sin pedir permiso. Un tigra se dirigió
a una carnicería donde se comió un cordero, echándose luego a dormir; uno de
los Teones, se fué a un café, provocando
el natural terror en los parroquianos;
otro león, rompló el escaparte de una
sembrerería y haciéndose una cama
ton unos sómbreros se echó también a
dormir. El resto, se fué por ahí, a, visi- |
tar, probablemente, los barrios alegres
dell pueblo.
La decadencia del hombre es algo más
que un síntoma; los irracionales se imponen 1 poco... Día llegará que a
la hora del vermouth, el vecino de la
wesa de enfrente en el café será un
España envía sus co ¡dolencias al Paraguay
España envía sus co
¡dolencias al Paraguay
(Agencia Austral)
ASUNCION, 21. — El ininlstro de
paña ha dirigido una nota a la Cancilles.
Ma transcriblendo un expresivo telegi
ma de condolencia de su gobierno por
e de Encarnaci
La Legación de España anuncia, ade
más, que en Encarnación han muerto
sels súbditos españoles, resultando, adé=
s, sels heridos. .
Source: Source: Internet Archive / Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina