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...were in grave danger of being trapped as Franco forces, behind a punishing artillery barrage and air attack, rolled forward on both sides of the salient. After three days the Leftists backed out, allowed Franco to straighten his lines, which now parallel the vital inland Allepuz to Alcalá de Chivert highway, still in Leftist hands at week...
...election was a second President of the Second Spanish Republic to replace kindly old Niceto Alcalá ("Father of the Republic") Zamora, brutally booted out of office last month by the Cortes. The new President was to be picked by the Parliamentary Deputies and an equal number of specially elected delegates sitting to gether in Madrid. Above partisan politics, he would have considerably more prestige and less power than the Premier. Unexpectedly, Premier Azaña let it be known that he would accept the Presidency...
Last week "The Father of the Second Spanish Republic," eloquent, softhearted President Niceto Alcalà Zamora y Torres, 58, was brazenly voted out of office, 238-to-5, by the Spanish Cortes (Parliament...
...mobs had burned some 17 churches, eleven convents, 33 Rightist political clubs, ten newspaper plants and 22 miscellaneous buildings. Killed: 51. Wounded: 194. In a fog of censorship and an official "state of alarm," a wild rumor spread that land-hungry peasants had overrun the estates of President Niceto Alcalá Zamora and his 78-year-old spinster aunt...