Crítica
- COMMUNIST MEETING BANNED
- REPORT THAT THE ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER WAS TO UNDERGO SURGERY IS DENIED
- REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VARIOUS AMERICAN COUNTRIES WILL MEET IN PHILADELPHIA
Crítica's foreign-news columns on 14 October 1926 carried wire reports from Berlin, Rome and Philadelphia. An Associated Press dispatch said Berlin police had banned the open-air demonstrations the Communists planned that afternoon against the settlement of the Hohenzollern property question. From Rome, the AP called a story that the Austrian surgeon Sauerbruch was rushing to operate on Mussolini the latest in a series of false rumors, officially denied and contradicted by the premier's busy activity. A third report announced that diplomats of all the American republics, Secretary of State Kellogg and the Pan American Union board would meet on the 22nd at Philadelphia's Sesquicentennial Exposition. Shorter items covered a proposed Brazil–Venezuela treaty, a London horse race and a football team's travel schedule.
Translation
COMMUNIST MEETING BANNED
…ARCELONA
COMMUNIST MEETING BANNED
It was to be held in Berlin to protest the settlement reached in the Hohenzollern affair
THE HALL CLOSED
(Associated Press)
BERLIN, 14. — The police of this city have issued orders prohibiting the open-air demonstrations that the Communists were preparing for this afternoon in order to protest the settlement reached on the question of the Hohenzollern properties…
REPORT THAT THE ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER WAS TO UNDERGO SURGERY IS DENIED
…14th from Asunción, arriving in Buenos Aires on the 17th and in Santiago on the 18th, and playing on the day after its arrival.
BRAZIL WILL CONCLUDE A TREATY SIMILAR TO THE ONE SIGNED WITH URUGUAY
(Agencia Austral)
RIO DE JANEIRO, 14. — The diplomatic committee of the Chamber of Deputies approved the proposal of Deputy Hermes Fonseca favoring the signing of a treaty between Brazil and Venezuela similar to the one recently signed with Uruguay.
REPORT THAT THE ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER WAS TO UNDERGO SURGERY IS DENIED
(Associated Press)
ROME, 14. — The series of false rumors about Italy that have been spread simultaneously in all the capitals of Europe culminated today in the completely unfounded report that the celebrated Austrian surgeon Dr. Sauerbruch was hurrying to this capital for the purpose of sub—
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VARIOUS AMERICAN COUNTRIES WILL MEET IN PHILADELPHIA
ROME, 14. — The series of false rumors about Italy that have been spread simultaneously in all the capitals of Europe culminated today in the completely unfounded report that the celebrated Austrian surgeon Dr. Sauerbruch was hurrying to this capital for the purpose of subjecting Mussolini to a surgical operation. This latest "canard" has not only been officially disavowed but has also been flatly refuted by the extraordinary activity of the Prime Minister, Mussolini.
DIOMEDES WINS THE CLASSIC CHALLENGE STAKES IN LONDON TODAY
(Agencia Austral)
LONDON, 14. — The Challenge Stakes was run today. The horse Diomedes, owned by Mr. Beer and ridden by the jockey J. Leach, beat Inca by three lengths. The odds were 2 to 5, 9 to 8 and 9 to 0.
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VARIOUS AMERICAN COUNTRIES WILL MEET IN PHILADELPHIA
Together with the United States Secretary of State and the Governing Board of the Pan American Union, they will hold a meeting at the Sesquicentennial Exposition
AN EXPRESSIVE DEMONSTRATION OF FRIENDSHIP
(Associated Press)
PHILADELPHIA, 14. — It is announced that the diplomatic representatives of all the American republics, as well as Secretary of State Mr. Kellogg and the Governing Board of the Pan American Union, will hold a meeting on the 22nd of this month at the Sesquicentennial Exposition in this city. Officials of this city expect that the meeting will come to be one of the most expressive demonstrations of international friendship recorded in the history of the two Americas, a meeting that will be the first ever held, in an official capacity, outside…
Context
How Prussia settled with the Hohenzollerns in October 1926
The settlement the Berlin Communists wanted to protest was the agreement between the state of Prussia and the former royal house, which was being completed in the same days as this dispatch. The German Historical Museum dates the agreement between Prussia and the House of Hohenzollern to 15 October 1926, the day after Crítica's report. TIME, in its issue of 25 October 1926, described Prussian Finance Minister Höpker-Aschoff's proposal as a grant of 15,000,000 gold marks, then $3,570,000, to the Hohenzollerns in final settlement of their claims against Prussia. The same TIME report says that when the Landtag president announced the bill's first reading, the Communist deputies rose en masse shouting, and that the bill finally passed by 258 votes to 37 with 65 abstentions. The quarrel was older than this vote: an earlier Prussian Finance Ministry draft had been heavily criticized because it would have returned about three-quarters of the disputed real estate to the princely house. The street demonstration that Berlin police banned, according to the paper, belonged to the same moment as the Communists' fight against the bill inside the Prussian parliament.
Why the Hohenzollern question was a Communist cause
The German Communist Party had made the princes' property its own issue months before this ban. The proposal to expropriate the former ruling houses without compensation began as a petition for a referendum that the KPD initiated and that the Social Democrats joined only with some reluctance. At the petition stage, 12.5 million of the 39.4 million eligible voters entered their names in the official lists, but the referendum itself failed. According to the German Historical Museum, after the failed referendum of 20 June 1926 most state governments reached financial compromises with their former princely houses fairly quickly. Expropriation without compensation gave way to individual compensation agreements that divided the estates between the states and the former dynasties. For the KPD, the Prussian deal with the Hohenzollerns was the concrete result of the campaign it had lost, which helps explain why the party tried to carry its protest onto the streets of Berlin.
Mussolini's health behind the surgery rumor
Crítica's Rome dispatch treats the Sauerbruch story as one of a series of false rumors about Italy and offers the official denial and Mussolini's visible activity as the proof against it; it says nothing more about what the rumors contained. Later research shows that doubts about Mussolini's health had a real basis in the preceding two years. In a 2007 interview about his book Quando Mussolini rischiò di morire, the journalist Paolo Cacace said that Mussolini suffered a serious collapse in February 1925 and was forced into a long absence, while the official version said he had influenza and he was in fact kept on a long convalescence and a milk diet. A consultation of eminent physicians pressed for surgery, Cacace said, but Mussolini refused and played for time because he feared the repercussions of the Matteotti murder trial; further ulcer crises followed at the end of 1925. Cacace also pointed out that four assassination attempts, real or alleged, preceded the 'fascistissime' laws of November 1926. A government that had already concealed one serious illness had good reason to answer a surgery rumor in 1926 by pointing to its leader's energy.
The Sesquicentennial Exposition as a stage for Pan-American diplomacy
The Philadelphia meeting announced in the third dispatch was to take place at the Sesquicentennial International Exposition, the world's fair Philadelphia hosted in 1926 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Bringing the diplomatic representatives of all the American republics, Secretary of State Kellogg and the Pan American Union's governing board to a fair celebrating United States independence gave the gathering a ceremonial setting, and the dispatch frames it in exactly those terms: city officials, it says, hoped the meeting would be one of the most expressive demonstrations of international friendship in the history of the Americas. The claim that it would be the first official meeting of its kind held outside some usual venue is the paper's own statement, and the sentence breaks off before naming that venue. The exposition itself had opened to great fanfare but failed to attract enough visitors, so a diplomatic event of this kind could also lend prestige to a fair struggling for attention.
Original
PROHIBIERON UNA REUNION COMUNISTA
ARCELONA PROHIBIERON UNA REUNION COMUNISTA Iba a efectuarse en Berlín para protestar por la solución dada al asunto de los Hohenzollern EL LOCAL CERRADO (Associated Press) BERLIN, 14. - La policía de esta ciudad ha dado órdenes prohibiendo la celebración de manifestaciones al aire libre que preparaban los comunistas para esta tarde, con el objeto de protestar por la solución dada a la cuestión de las pre = piedades de los Holenzollern
SE DESMIENTE LA NOTICIA DE QUE EL PRIMER MINISTRO ITALIANO IBA A SER OPERADO
14 de Asunción, llegando el 17 a Buenos Aires y el 18 a Santiago, jugando al día siguiente de su llegada. BRASIL CELEBRARA UN TRATADO SIMILAR AL FIRMADO CON URUGUAY (Agencia Austral) RIO DE JANEIRO, 14. - La comisión diplomática de la Cámara de Diputados aceptó el proyecto del diputado, señor Hermes Fonseca, favoreciendo la firma de un tratado entre Brasil y Venezuela, similar al que ha sido recientemente firmado con Uruguay. SE DESMIENTE LA NOTICIA DE QUE EL PRIMER MINISTRO ITALIANO IBA A SER OPERADO (Associated Press) ROMA, 14. - La serie de rumores falsos acerca de Italia, que se han propalado simultáneamente en todas las capitales de Europa, culminó hoy con la noticia, completamente infundada, de que el célebre cirujano austriaco, doctor Sauerbruch se dirigía urgentemente a esta capital, con el propósito de so -
SE REUNIRAN EN FILADELFIA LOS REPRESENTANTES DE LOS DIVERSOS PAISES AMERICANOS
ROMA, 14. - La serie de rumores falsos acerca de Italia, que se han propalado simultáneamente en todas las capitales de Europa, culminó hoy con la noticia, completamente infundada, de que el célebre cirujano austriaco, doctor Sauerbruch se dirigía urgentemente a esta capital, con el propósito de someter a Mussolini a una operación quirúrgica. Este último " canard ", no sólo ha sido oficialmente desautorizado, sino que ha quedado terminantemente desmentido ante las actividades extraordinarias del primer ministro. Mussolini. EL CLASICO CHALLENGE STAKES SE LO ADJUDICO DIOMEDES, HOY EN LONDRES (Agencia Austral) LONDRES, 14. - Se corrió hoy el Challenge Stakes. El caballo Diomendes de propiedad de Mr. Beer, y montado por el jockey J. Leach, derrotó a Inca, por tres cuerpos. Las apuestas fueron en proporción de 2 a 5, 9 a 8 y 9 a 0. SE REUNIRAN EN FILADELFIA LOS REPRESENTANTES DE LOS DIVERSOS PAISES AMERICANOS En unión del secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos y de la junta de gobierno de la Unión Panamericana, celebrarán una reunión en la exposición del Sesquicentenario UNA DEMOSTRACION EXPRESIVA DE AMISTAD (Associated Press) FILADELFIA, 14. - Se anuncia que s representantes diplomáticos de todas s repúblicas, americanasc omo tamén el secretario de Estado Mr. Kellog la Junta de Gobierno de la Unión Pan nericana, celebrarán el 22 del corrienuna reunión en la Exposición del Ses icentenario de esta ciudad. Los funcionarios de esta ciudad espen que la reunión legará a constituir a de las demostraciones más expresis de la amistad internacional que retre la historia de ambas Américas, nión que será la primera que se hacelebrado, con carácter oficial, fuera
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