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...President Niceto Alcala Zamora had no connection last week with either Spanish Rightists or Spanish Leftists, except that the latter have his two sons. "The Government of Valencia has thus pointed a contraband dagger at my heart by taking from me hostages beyond all price," wrote Alcala Zamora in the Journal de Geneve. "An aching heart has steeled itself by a supreme effort to recover the fullness of its liberty, the liberty of the pen and the liberty of action-action faithful to my convictions as a patriotic Republican...
Objective editors noted with keen interest last week that Niceto Alcala. Zamora y Torres, who was the Republican President of Spain up to less than a year ago and today earns his living as a journalist in France, has now contributed to the Swiss Journal de Geneve his historic recollections of how things went in Madrid under the premiership of Manuel Azana who today is the Leftist Government's President of Spain...
...Government gave reign to the mob, tools in the hands of their leaders, to establish a Dictatorship of the Streets as well as over the Government itself," writes Alcala Zamora, describing events a few months before the Civil War began as he saw them as President of the Republic. "Anxiety increased. There was panic on the stock exchange. ... I lost all hope when I saw that four Governmental instructions had been framed with extraordinary partiality toward those who were culpable . . . [officials who] had supinely allowed the burning of churches, private houses, offices and workshops before the eyes of a passive...
...Dionisio, raced the flood to his headquarters at Echagüe and telegraphed before the wires went down that there were already 20 known dead in the village of Cagayan. He added: "No reports received from the towns and barrios around Ilagan, as they are submerged." The postmaster at Alcala succeeded in reporting that the river was six feet over the tops of the telegraph poles. Reports from another village indicated that there were 75 persons missing; 54 villages were known to be submerged; people crouching on the roofs of their houses were carried away screaming in the flood. After...
...Niceto Alcala Zamora was recently forced to resign as President of (1 Spain, 2 Portugal, 3 Brazil, 4 Cuba, 5 Mexico...