1931 British Empire State Visit to Argentina by Prince of Wales and Prince George
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- This fascinating 16mm film news reel was shot by a roving freelance Canadian filmographer journalist during very fascinating times. Britain was Argentina's largest trading partner during the 1920s and 30s but that trade was threatened by ever growing presence of Germany, which just two years after this 1931 news clip was recorded the Nazi Party became the government of Germany in 1933. In 1930 Argentina had been taken over in a military coup d'etat by General Uriburu, backed by Argentinian fascists, who were in turn backed by the German Embassy in Argentina. Britain worried about their trade agreements with Argentina because the United States had successfully prevented Britain from enacting it's plan for it's Imperial Preference Trade Plan amongst it's Commonwealth of Colonies and Dominions which it had tried to organize during a special conference in Ottawa, Canada, and sent the Prince of Wales, and his younger brother Albert, Prince George, to Argentina to strengthen their trade relations with that country. In 1982 Great Britain and Argentina fought a bitter War over the Falklands Islands. Anyways, back in the 1930s, the Prince of Wales later became King Edward VIII who soon after that in late 1936 abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson. They honeymooned in Germany, and he became the Duke of Windsor, and was banished to the Bahamas during WWII under suspicions of Nazi sympathies. Prince George became the new King George VI when his older brother abdicated in late 1936. General Uriburu died in 1932 allegedly from stomach cancer, and Argentina suffered thru a long succession of coups afterwards. Fascinating times. I transferred this 1931 news reel to DVD in 2005 for the Holland family relatives of the Canadian freelance journalist who recorded it in 1931.
I think it is a very rash statement saying that the British Empire was the biggest ever. If we consider since the International Law´s point of view, that the whole Australian continent, the whole India and the whole Canada were British property since UK claimed them in the XIX century as British dependences, upon the simple fact of - nobody else more could avoid it - , then the whole Pacific Ocean was a Spanish property since Spain claimed it in the XV century as Spanish property through the Pope Alexander VI´s papal bull known as Inter Caetera´, of 1493, till the Nootka Convention of 1794, where Spain at last allowed the free navigation through the Pacific Ocean. This means more than 300 consecutive years of Spanish domination over the Ocean Pacific due to the simple fact of that nobody else in Europe, Asia or Africa knew how to arrive and how to cross the Pacific Ocean, becoming so in what was known in the international context during those 300 years, as the Spanish Lake´.
By the other hand, all the British colonies at Africa were assigned to UK through the international Berlin Conference of 1884 and the Versailles Peace Conference of 1919, which acted, both of them, as a kind of `United Nations´ (due to the fact of that this current international organization did not still exist that time), in order to distribute Africa among the European powers according to the European Law and point of view. Concerning to Spain during the height of its power, it was the pope himself in the XV century, (that´s, the `United Nations´ of that time...), who assigned through the Conference and Treaty of Tordesillas, of 1494, the whole American Continent plus the whole Pacific Ocean plus a half from the Atlantic Ocean, to Spain, since Spain had discovered the Americas and the Pacific Ocean, while he also assigned the whole African Continent plus the Indian Ocean plus the other half from the Atlantic Ocean, to Portugal, since Portugal had discovered the African Continent and the Indian Ocean. Both Spain and Portugal had claimed in exclusivity too the Atlantic Ocean, so this is the reason of the pope divided it half to half between them.
This way during the Iberian Union of the Spanish and the Portuguese Empires into a unique empire ruled by Spain (since 1580 till 1640), the Spanish Empire since the International Law´s point of view included the whole American Continent plus the whole African continent plus the whole Pacific Ocean plus the Whole Indian Ocean plus the whole Atlantic Ocean. That´s a peak of extension of over 360 000 000 km² including lands and oceans, and this is the reason why the Spanish coins of that period represented the spanish king riding a horse over a sphere that meant the domination of the whole world by Spain as the first universal or global empire from History, since the 70% of the planet belonged to Spain and this is the reason of the famous Phillipe II of Spain´s phrase ` the sun never sets down in my kingdom´. The maximun extension ever of the British Empire was around 40 000 000 km² and never included neither oceans nor seas.
This is this way because, unlike Spain, UK could never claim a whole sea or ocean as exclusive British possession since during the peak of the British power, (since 1815 till 1914), there were many important colonialist competitors for UK around the world, such as France, Germany, Russia, USA or Japan. The Spanish Empire instead, during its peak of power (since 1494 till 1650), had no real colonialist competitors to dispute its territorial or maritim claims due to the deep difference of power between Spain and its powerful empire extended all along the world, compared with the rest of European, African or Asian countries, who had mere little territories if not nothing, out from Europe, Africa or Asia respectively, and in consecuence less human, politic, economic and militar power.
In conclusion, the biggest empire from History according to its full extension during a certain period of time was the Spanish one, followed, in this order, by the Russian one, the British one, the Mongolian one and the French one. The Spanish Empire also included during the Iberian Union all the territories discovered by Spain or Portugal and claimed as possessions by them: Australia, discovered by Spain for Spain, Indonesia, discovered by Portugal for Portugal, New Zeland, discovered by Spain for Spain, Japan, discovered by Portugal for Portugal etc, plus diverse specific places discovered by Portugal at India, China and Arabia, and by Spain at Antartica and at several islands all along the Pacific Ocean.
Spain and Portugal discovered together the entire world for Europe, so all those continents and territories discovered by them around the world have still Spanish or Portuguese names like `Canada´, `America´, `Africa´, `New Guinea´, `Antartica´, `Australia´, `Indonesia´, `Japan´, `Indochina´, `Arabia´, `Phillipines´, `Pacific Ocean´, `Indian Ocean´, `Solomon Islands´, `Marianas Islands´, `Fernandinas Islands´, etc.
By last, according to its global impact for History, scholars and historians all over the world claim that the most prominent empire in the Humankind History, is the Spanish one just after the Greek and the Roman Empires, because of the changes that it brought to the world. One of those changes or effects was the dawn of the British Empire itself more than 100 years after the rise of the Spanish one. It´s more, there are many historians who consider that the Spanish Empire is even ahead of the Greek or Roman Empires in importance because linked all the 5 continents and all the 5 oceans for the first time in the Humankind History, unifying the world and creating the globalization which we all know today.
I´m not Spanish but I´m a History teacher and History is History and the historical objective facts are the historical objective facts.
Spanish Empire during the Iberian Union:
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To learn more about the Spanish Empire and its massive importance take a look to this video:
ruclips.net/video/TSBjsE-fyas/видео.html
((Pay attention on you can download and read for free the O.H.K Spate´s History book about the `Spanish Lake´ directly from the link under the video)).
I bow to your extensive knowledge, thanks for commenting
amazing
Thank you Erni, I'm very happy to know you enjoyed that old film
HomeMoviesdotCa im from Argentina. Its impressive that i walked the street in Buenos Aires where His Royal Highnesses walked, the only "bad" thing was that in that moment we had a coup going there and we have a bad history with coups, as they did some horrible things. Of course the Princes came there with good and honorable intentions so it was great, later, the Duke of Edimburgh came while we had a democratic gov, would really liked that Edward and George had the same opportunity. Thank you again for the good work there :)
There is a theory Hitler survived the War and hid out in Argentina for awhile. A recent show "Hunting For Hitler" is fascinating too.
German marches...
Good point, thanks for the suggestion
hay muchos galeses en la provincia argentina "chubut"
Muy extraño
hola! no es extraño, la provincia argentina "chubut" su mayoria de habitantes tiene origen galés (welsh), en la provincia chubut hay ciudades, llamada "trevelin", "gaiman", "puerto madryn", etcetera, todos nombres de origen galés, el nombre "chubut" tambien es de origen galés, sí, Argentina recibió muchos inmigrantes de origen britanico, despues de todo Argentina es un pais que lo hicieron los inmigrantes, también llegaron muchos ingleses, que entre otras cosas se ocuparon de instalar las primeras estaciones y redes ferroviarias, igualmente el pais que aportó el mayor numero de inmigrantes fue Italia, pero tambien hay muchos españoles, franceses, alemanes, ucranianos, etecetera.Despues por ejemplo en la provincia "Santa Cruz", hay una ciudad que se llama "Puerto Deseado", el origen del nombre esta en el barco "The Desire" del cual estaba al mando Thomas Cavendish.Saludos
@@HomeMoviesdotCa Por qué extraño?...muchos britanicos han emigrado a las americas no solo a Estados Unidos o Canada.