Английская Википедия:Adolfo Costa du Rels

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Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Adolfo Costa du Rels (or Adolfo Costa du Reís) (19 June 1891 – 26 May 1980) was a Bolivian writer and diplomat who became the last President of the Council of the League of Nations. He was the author of many plays, novels ,and other writings, mostly in French, and received several literary awards.

Early years

Adolfo Costa du Rels was born in Sucre in 1891. His father was a French engineer from Corsica; his mother, Amelia du Reís y Medeiros, was Bolivian. The family returned to Corsica when he was eight years old.Шаблон:Sfn At the age of ten, he was sent to the Fesch College in Ajaccio, Corsica.Шаблон:Sfn Later he studied at the University of Aix-en-Provence, and then studied literature and law at the University of Paris-Sorbonne.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Writing in Spanish, in his 1941 essay El drama del escritor bilingüe [The drama of the bilingual writer] Costa du Rels described the "linguistic trauma" that resulted from being a native Spanish-speaker educated in French.Шаблон:Sfn

Costa du Rels returned to Bolivia in 1912.Шаблон:Sfn Oil had been discovered in the Bolivian Oriente, and prospecting and speculation were at their height. A member of the Sucre elite, he obtained grants to explore petroleum in the region and spent several years in the effort,Шаблон:Sfn becoming one of the richest petroleum operators in the country.Шаблон:Sfn In 1914 he became secretary of the Incauasi Petroleum Syndicate, and by 1916 he owned claims for a combined area of Шаблон:Convert. Later he used these experiences to provide background for his novel Tierra hechizadas [Bewitched Lands].Шаблон:Sfn

Diplomat

Costa du Rels entered the diplomatic service in 1917 and was attached to the Bolivian embassy in France. He was then appointed Bolivian chargé d'affaires in Chile. He was elected a deputy in the Bolivian government for a period, then became a counsellor to the Bolivian embassy in France. In 1928 he was the Bolivian delegate to the Pan-American Conference in Havana, where he was rapporteur of the Havana Convention for the protection of artistic property and copyright, and then was a Bolivian delegate to the International Institute for Intellectual Cooperation.Шаблон:Sfn

Costa du Rels was appointed Bolivian delegate to the Geneva-based Assembly of the League of Nations, and in 1930 was vice-president of the 11th Assembly of the league. He was appointed a member of the Standing Committee of Arts and Letters in 1931.Шаблон:Sfn In January 1927 the Bolivian government adhered to the Geneva Convention's protocol on the trafficking of opium and other harmful drugs, with reservations concerning coca, a relatively mild drug (in its leaf form) that had been used for centuries by the local people. These reservations were incorporated into Bolivian law in 1932. Costa du Rels was provided with many pamphlets on coca to help him defend the Bolivian position at the League of Nations.Шаблон:Sfn In 1933 he sought "advice from industrialists and landowners of the Yungas" on new steps to protect coca.Шаблон:Sfn The arguments in defense included the economic importance of the crop, its value in health and nutrition, and the fact that its use was a long tradition among Bolivians.Шаблон:Sfn

Chaco war

In July 1932 an ongoing dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco territory escalated into armed conflict. In September of that year the League of Nations set up a three-person committee with delegates from Ireland, Spain ,and Guatemala to investigate the conflict and if necessary prepare for intervention. The committee head, Seán Lester, attempted without success to resolve the positions of two countries' delegates to the League, Costa du Rels and Ramón Caballero de Bedoya of Paraguay.Шаблон:Sfn

In June 1933 Costa du Rels wrote to the Secretary General of the League of Nations pointing out the great military importance of Puerto Casado, a port on the Paraguay River, which was being used as a base for Paraguayan troops and as a point of supply for these troops.Шаблон:Sfn He justified Bolivia's aerial bombardment of the town on this basis, while denying that Bolivia had attacked agricultural settlements.Шаблон:Sfn He represented to the League that the territory had belonged to Bolivia since 1810, but that Paraguay had been surreptitiously occupying the region, taking advantage of her favorable geographical position. He called for arbitration to establish the boundaries.Шаблон:Sfn

The war continued with heavy loss of life on both sides for two years. In the end, when a cease-fire was negotiated between the two exhausted countries in June 1935, Paraguay controlled most of the disputed territory.Шаблон:Sfn In the 1938 truce, Paraguay was awarded three-quarters of the Chaco Boreal.Шаблон:Sfn Ironically, since the war had been fought over suspected oil and gas reserves, it turned out later that there were none in the Paraguayan sector while the Bolivian quarter was rich in these resources.Шаблон:Sfn

World War II

Costa du Rels was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Switzerland and the Vatican between 1937 and 1943.Шаблон:Sfn World War II broke out in 1939 and would last until 1945. In 1940 Costa du Rels became President of the Council of the League of Nations, the last to hold this post. The League was dissolved after World War II and replaced by the United Nations.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In July 1940, Costa du Rels supported the appointment of Seán Lester as Secretary-General of the League, a diplomat with whom he had negotiated during the Gran Chaco conflict.Шаблон:Sfn Costa du Rels was Ambassador of Bolivia to Argentina between 1943 and 1944.Шаблон:Sfn

Post-war

On 10 January 1946 Costa du Rels attended a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly for discussions on disposing of the assets of the League of Nations, of which he was still technically President.Шаблон:Sfn Costa du Rels was Minister of Foreign Affairs and Public Worship in Bolivia in 1948.Шаблон:Sfn In that position he attempted without success to obtain support from the United States for raising the price paid for Bolivian tin, which had been fixed at a relatively low level but for which there was now a shortage of supply.Шаблон:Sfn Between 1948 and 1952 Costa du Rels was Bolivian Ambassador to France. In 1973 he served as Bolivian Ambassador to UNESCO.Шаблон:Sfn For much of his life, Costa du Rels made his home in Paris.Шаблон:Sfn According to the Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld, Costa du Rels had the right to say of himself, as had Joseph de Maistre, "No foreigner is more French than me."Шаблон:Sfn Costa du Rels died in La Paz in 1980.Шаблон:Sfn

Literary Work and Recognition

Costa du Rels wrote in both French and Spanish and wrote poetry, plays, novels, short stories ,and essays.Шаблон:Sfn His play Les étendards du roi [The King's Standards] was staged in Paris in 1956. The Spanish version, Los estandartes del rey, was performed in La Paz in 1968. The play was awarded the Gulbenkian Prize in 1972, an award given to the best dramatists in the Latin world. Among his other well-known plays are Les Forces du Silence [The Forces of Silence], staged in 1944 in Buenos Aires, El signo del fuego [The Sign of Fire] (1957) ,and El quinto jinete [The Fifth Horseman] (1963).Шаблон:Sfn His essay Los cruzados de alta mar [Deep sea crossings] won the Prix Rivarol in Paris in 1954.Шаблон:Sfn It described his farewell to Paris in May 1940.Шаблон:Sfn

Some of his stories such as La Misk'isimi (Quechua misk'i sweet, honey, simi mouth, word, language)[1] explored indigenous Bolivian themes.Шаблон:Sfn This story appeared in the French-language 1928 collection La hantise de l'or [The spell of gold], published in 1948 in Spanish as El embrujo del oro. This story and another from the same book, Plata del Diablo [The Devil's Silver], which tells of prospecting in the Andes, were freely combined with his 1973 novel Los Andes no Creen en Dios [The Andes Do not Believe in God] to form the basis for a 2007 film Los Andes no creen en Dios starring Diego Bertie and Carla Ortiz.Шаблон:Sfn

Costa du Rels was given many awards, including the National Prize for Literature in 1976 and the Grand Cross of the Order of the Condor of the Andes. He was made an officer of the French Legion of Honour, and was a member of the academies of History of Argentina and Bolivia.Шаблон:Sfn He was a member of the Bolivian Academy of Literature. Guillermo Francovich said of him that although he wrote in French he was essentially a Bolivian writer, and his most characteristic works were devoted to Bolivian issues.Шаблон:Sfn

Bibliography

Poetry
  • Le sourire návre (The heart-broken smile) (French, 1922)
  • Amaritudine (Grand prize for international poetry from the society of French poets, 1949)
  • Poemas (Poems) (Spanish, 1988)
Theater
Stories
Novels
Essays

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