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...increase confidence in the sunk but slowly rising Spanish peseta† Provisional President Alcala Zamora declared: "I have not a large fortune, but what I have I have now transferred from France to Spain, from francs into pesetas...
Ever since the revolution Cardinal Segura has had gloomily in mind the rich church lands which seem likely to be taken away from him, some 50,000,000 gold pesetas of government tithes which he is almost certain to lose (though the cautious Alcala Zamora Government has made no definite steps toward the breaking of Church & State). Three weeks ago he attracted a certain amount of unfavorable attention by remarking in the course of a sermon: "May the Republic be cursed!" As it was impossible to blame this pastoral letter on any misquotation, Republican ministers raged. Fernando de los Rios...
...Niceto Alcala Zamora y Torres. Provisional President of Spain, scratched his unshaven chin and shook his rumpled hair at a group of reporters last week...
President Alcala Zamora was at least working harder last week than he ever had worked in his life. He is an Andalusian lawyer, and in Andalusia businessmen and lawyers are accustomed to take life easily. As every visitor to Spain knows, one rises about 10 a. m., works till 1 p. m., then there is time out for lunch and siesta. At 3 p. m. shops open again, business proceeds until 7 or 8 P.M. One dines at 9:30. theatres start at 10:30; cafes are open all night. Few Spaniards of importance go to bed before three...
...lean, white-haired nobles gathered in the throne room to bid him farewell. Slowly the King passed down the line of Royal Halberdiers. Through a side gate in the garden he stepped, entered his racing car which was waiting at the curb and sped through the city. President Alcala Zamora in a second car accompanied him to the city limits. On a hill overlooking Madrid, Alfonso got out for a moment to look back at the city he was leaving...