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...hundreds of years all the bakers of Seville have come from the suburban village of Alcala de Guardaira. All last week the frightened bakers marched to work guarded by soldiers with fixed bayonets.* Hundreds of Syndicalists were arrested. Enough pistols and knives were found on them to fill six hampers in the police station. Two army trucks were filled with prisoners, sent off to exile in West Africa. Four men were killed in the Plaza Espana when a mob attempted to rescue the caravan of exiles...
Said Niceto Alcala Zamora, Provisional President of Spain...
...election last week for the first Spanish Parliament in seven years returned President Alcala Zamora (as a Deputy from Saragossa) and every member of his Cabinet. Numerous parties entered candidates, but as foreseen, conservative Republicans and moderate Socialists swept the boards. Communists made no progress. The only districts that showed Royalist strength were medieval Navarre, whose sympathies are not for Alfonso but his 60-year-old cousin, the Carlist Pretender Don Jaime; and Guadelajara, pocket borough of wrinkled canny Count de Romanones who used to dandle Alfonso XIII on his knee. Enthusiasti- cally returned was Foreign Minister Alejandro Lerroux, whose...
...pudgy gentleman with sparse unruly white hair and a toothbrush mustache stood patiently in line for nearly an hour under the dusty pepper trees by a Madrid polling place last week before he was recognized: Alcala Zamora, Provisional President of Spain...
Jews believe that Catholic Alcala Zamora, Spain's new Provisional President, has in his veins a trace of Jewish blood. Last week when Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Toledo, returned from a visit to Pope Pius XI and attempted to slip into Spain, he was caught by police of the Zamora Government, detained under virtual arrest at Guadalajara, "asked to leave Spain...