L’Écho d’Alger
Inter-Allied debts
L'Écho d'Alger's front page for 14 October 1926 carried news from Paris, Strasbourg and New York.
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L’Écho d’Alger
Our Debt to America
This front page of L'Écho d'Alger carried three foreign dispatches dated October 12.
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The incidents in the Rhineland
This front page of L'Écho d'Alger was dominated by Franco-German tension and war debts.
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Radical-Socialist Federation of the Rhône
L'Écho d'Alger of October 11, 1926 carried three political dispatches from mainland France, all turning on Raymond Poincaré's new government.
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Against the High Cost of Living
This front page of L'Écho d'Alger for 10 October 1926 paired a Paris report on the fight against high prices with a digest of metropolitan opinion.
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Aviator Tarascon to attempt the Atlantic crossing
L'Écho d'Alger's front page of 9 October 1926 led with an interview, reprinted from a Paris paper, in which the aviator Paul Tarascon flatly denied a New York report that he had taken a $25,000 American offer to fly New York–Paris.
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At the Presidency of the Council
L'Écho d'Alger's front page of 8 October 1926 carried Paris political news from Raymond Poincaré's National Union government.
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Cabinet Council
L'Écho d'Alger's front page of 7 October 1926 carried Paris dispatches dated the previous day.
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Our Navy
L'Écho d'Alger's front page of 6 October 1926 led with Navy Minister Georges Leygues praising France's newest warships in an interview with Le Journal, arguing that the Great War had shown France needed light, fast units more than big capital ships.
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Franco-German Relations
This front page of L'Écho d'Alger for 5 October 1926 set the case for Franco-German reconciliation beside its frictions.
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The Paris Meeting
This Algiers daily's page gathered French press reaction to Aristide Briand's meeting in Paris with Austen Chamberlain, who had earlier seen Mussolini at Livorno.
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M. Stresemann delivers a major speech on Franco-German understanding
L'Écho d'Alger of 3 October 1926 led its front page with the new diplomacy between France and Germany.
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Council of Ministers
This Algiers daily carried Paris news of a council of ministers at the Élysée where Poincaré, as finance minister, presented economy decrees under the Law of August 3, 1926, abolishing 92 mortgage registries and another 1,700 posts in the finance administration, while Herriot's decrees gave Sèvres, the Gobelins, Beauvais and other institutions legal personality and financial autonomy.
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Lieutenant Desmons returns to France
This Algiers daily's front page for 30 September 1926 led with a vivid dispatch from Marseille.
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FOR ALGERIA
L’Écho d’Alger attacks Governor Viollette’s maternal and infant assistance scheme, invoking objections from the Financial Delegations and unnamed medical authorities to demand proper preparation.
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FOR ALGERIA
L’Écho d’Alger attacked Viollette’s handling of agricultural credit, accusing his inner circle of secrecy, describing settler opposition as forcing him to narrow his plans, and crediting Algerian parliamentarians with securing discount facilities.
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The Congress of the National Union of Disabled and Medically Discharged Veterans
Financial recovery links these three selections from L’Écho d’Alger of 27 September 1926.
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For Algeria
A caustic editorial attacks Viollette’s appointment and dealings with his Dreux supporters.
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For Algeria
The editorial frames its campaign against Viollette as a public duty, declaring that silence about alleged errors would amount to complicity.
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The problem of disarmament
The two selected headings pair the problem of disarmament with movement toward Franco-German rapprochement.
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In England the accident is attributed to the aircraft’s overload
The central diplomatic report names Rhineland evacuation, return of the Saar and the marketing of German railway obligations as subjects considered by Briand and Stresemann, while stressing the technical guarantees still required.
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Fonck’s aircraft crashes; two aviators die
The aviation headline contrasts the survival of Fonck with two deaths in the aircraft.
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After the Thoiry meeting
The page ties diplomacy to financial pressures through reports on Briand’s cabinet briefing, France’s wheat purchases and a Canton boycott settlement.
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After the Thoiry meeting — A clarification
The Thoiry clarification separates Loucheur’s travel from an official German mission.
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For Algeria
A polemic against Governor Viollette turns travel and personal allowances into an argument about the cost of colonial administration.
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Barbara, the only ship using rotors, calls at our port
Barbara’s port call is described through its German flag and three wind-catching rotors.
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The nine non-permanent members of the League Council are elected
The Council election, the Lotus judgment and Canada’s election show a page moving between institutional news and assertive political interpretation.
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The government’s reforms
The page reproduces an argument that Poincaré’s administrative reforms and the cabinet’s survival must be judged together.
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The Assembly holds another session
The League report records peace pledges and refugee relief alongside a debate on representation.
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Reforms and cuts
L’Écho d’Alger’s leading commentary welcomes administrative reform while questioning hurried cuts designed to impress the public.
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The Briand–Stresemann meeting
L'Écho d'Alger prints a French delegation correction: Briand's meeting with Stresemann was a courtesy visit, while substantive cooperation talks were only anticipated.
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