Historia de Barcelona

Etiqueta: bandera de Cataluña

  • Un grupo intenta convertir el mito pitarresco del Fossar de las Moreres en verdad política

    Un grupo se dirigió al lugar conocido por el «Fossar de les Moreres», cerca de Santa María del Mar, donde fueron enterrados los defensores de la ciudad en 1714, colocando una placa negra en la que en letras blancas se leían unos versos alusivos, originales de Federico Soler, Pitarra.

    Costeada por la «Lliga Espiritual de Nostra Senyora de Montserrat», se dijo á las ocho de la mañana en la parroquial iglesia de los Santos Justo y Pastor una misa en sufragio de las almas de los que perecieron en 1714 en la defensa de Barcelona contra las tropas de Felipe V. La iglesia estaba adornada é iluminada con esplendidez, celebrando la misa el doctor Montagut, asistido por dos socios de la entidad organizadora.

    En el centro del templo pendía una bandera catalana de grandes dimensiones. El celebrante dirigió una plática á la concurrencia, que fue muy numerosa.

  • El Estatuto de 1932 en la prensa norteamericana

    FREEDOM GIVEN TO CATALONIA
    Spain Tries New Experiment, Creating New Nation
    Fifty-Year-Old Battle for Autonomy Is Finally Won
    (Special Cable to the New York Times and Montreal Gazette.)
    Madrid, September 8.-After the practical rounding out of Spain’s constitution in a period of more than 18 months, the Cortes tonight finished its task of creating a new nation by voting the last article of the Catalan autonomy statute.

    For 50 years the Catalan problem has caused unceasing strife in Spanish political circles and innumerable government crises. The Spanish Republic is turning away from the intense centralization, which has been the tendency of the other European nations recently, and is offering the world an experiment in a new way of dealing with minorities.

    The statute has been passed by the Republic despite obstructionism and one rebellion after another. It has been passed, however, with the Right-wing press suppressed by a governmental edict and with the jails full of its opponents.

    In Catalonia, where it is regarded as victory in a century-long struggle, it was greeted with wild joy. In many quarters, however, it is viewed as destructive of Spain and her unity, which began wiht the crusades of Ferdinand and Isabella. Whether good or bad, it shows Spain has built on new internal principles.

    The statute will be formally voted in its entirety tomorrow, along with the land-reform bill. It will become effective on January 1, which will allow time to get the new state’s structure in working order. The Cortes will adjourn until October 1.

    It is possible that on readjournment the Socialists will leave the Government and new national elections will be called.

    [Cataluña es una región autónoma, etc etc]

    Under the statute not only can the old red-and-yellow-striped banner with which [Roger de] Flor stormed Istanbul when Catalonia was a great Mediterranean power float side by side with the Spanish flag, but Catalan is declared like Spanish, to be the official language. Translation into Spanish always will be demanded for whatever purpose.

    [Devolución de educación, orden público regional, fiscalidad, etc etc]

  • Llega Azaña con el Estatuto de Autonomía; se confunde el logotipo de Shell con la bandera catalana

    Reign of Reason

    There was dancing in the streets in Barcelona last week, such a fiesta as not even the oldest Catalan could remember. By oxcart and on burro the peasants came in their red stockinet caps and baggy breeches. Leather-faced fishermen came up from Tarragona. All night long shouting crowds surged up & down under the huge plane trees of the ramblas to rigadoon round the statue of Christopher Columbus and back up the hill again. From a thousand staffs fluttered the five-barred red-&-yellow Catalonian flag. Trucks of Shell Oil Co. were hailed with delight.

    All this was caused when quiet, bespectacled Premier Manuel Azana of Spain came to town to hand white-toothed «President» Francisco Macia of Catalonia a copy of the statute granting home rule to Catalonia.

    «Everything depends upon how you use this liberty,» warned Premier Azana. «For the sake of Catalonia and Spain, be careful!»

    Pink with pleasure, Colonel Macia waved his hands excitedly and shouted:

    «The Catalans can feel now they are true sons of a country rich in glorious tradition. I interpret the sentiments of all of them, when I say that Sept. 25, 1932 will be recorded on the pages of history as ushering in a reign of reason and justice on Iberian soil.»

    Crowds standing in the square before the high porticoed Generalidad burst into El Segredores, the once proscribed Catalonian anthem, roared loudest at the verse about cutting off the heads of the proud Castilians. Manuel Azana grinned good naturedly. Even the white geese in the Cathedral cloister honked their loudest.

    [Dateline 1932/10/03]