Word: alcala
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chubby, tousle-haired Andalusian lawyer who is often too busy to shave, Niceto Alcala Zamora y Torres, was elected first Constitutional President of Spain by the Cortes last week. Next day he was inaugurated...
...took no oath of office. "I solemnly promise" said President Alcala Zamora, "on my honor before the Constituent Cortes . . . faithfully to serve the Republic, respect and enforce the Constitution . . . and devote my activity as Chief of State to the service and justice of Spain...
Three Things Happened: 1) The National Assembly rammed into the Constitution by a vote of 178 to 59 Article XXIV expelling the Jesuits and barring education under Catholic auspices;* 2) President Alcala Zamora resigned in protest and 50 pious Basque and Navarra Deputies marched out of the National Assembly shouting "Long live Christ the King!"; 3) Parliamentary leaders gathered jabbering in the lobby, decided that War Minister Azana ought to be President, told Speaker Julian ("Bell Smasher") Besteiro of their decision...
...catcalls filling the National Assembly, with Deputies punching & pulling each other's noses, Foreign Minister Alejandro Lerroux cancelled an appointment to go to Geneva. He was to have presided over the League Council while it wrestled with China & Japan (see p. 20). Instead Senor Lerroux leaped with President Alcala Zamora to the aid of Mother Church. Also for Mother Church battled at first War Minister Manuel Azana-but not for long...
...once that 22,219 commissioned officers (149 of them Generals) were too many for Spain, slashed the number to 7,000. "Our Army today," he has said with modest pride, "is compact!" Last week amid National Assembly bedlam about Mother Church, shrewd War Minister Azana suddenly deserted pious President Alcala Zamora, made a fiery anticlerical speech which delighted the Socialists (largest Spanish party). That speech a few hours later made War Minister Azana the Provisional President and Premier of Spain. But first