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Punching & Pulling. Thus the Second Republic disestablished Mother Church, but the fight to cripple her in Spain had only begun. Her devout son. Provisional President Alcala Zamora, bellowed from the Government Bench that he could stomach disestablishment but no more. Reminding the members that he resigned (for one hour) as President when a Deputy insulted his honor (TiME, Oct. 19), President Alcala Zamora threatened passionately to resign permanently...
...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
Honor satisfied and the Government preserved, the National Assembly succeeded in drafting the expropriation bill the next day. Moderate President Alcala Zamora had his way. Grandees were cheered to discover that, as drafted last week, the expropriation law does not provide for confiscation of estates, provides that payment must be made for estates expropriated...
Pandemonium. Amid cheers and jeers members of the Cabinet clustered round resigned President Alcala Zamora, arguing, pleading, coaxing him to reconsider. Alcala Zamora refused to budge so long as the insult to his honor stood. For 63 minutes Spain was without a President. Finally Insultor Jiminez was persuaded to resign his committee chairmanship. Mollified, Senor Alcala Zamora withdrew his Presidential resignation, gingerly sat down on the Government bench again...