Word: aza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Half-sympathetic toward the Spanish peasant's belief that Jesuits and Rightist politicians are to blame for peasant poverty, squat, sack-faced Republican Premier Manuel Azaña last week moved to end the violence. He called in Socialist Leader Francisco Largo Caballero, roared at him to call off his mobs, was met with evasions. He issued a decree re-seizing for distribution to the peasants lands which Spain's Left Government had seized in 1932 and which its Right Government had returned to the grandees...
...thing Left-Centre Premier Azaña knew that he could not do was to crack down on the Left mobsters of the Socialist and Communist parties, whose 99 seats in the new Cortes, added to the 165 seats of his own Republican parties, give him his mandate. Nor could he use direct action against the powerful Right coalition of Catholic Leader Gil Robles without inviting civil war. He did, however, espouse the theory that the month's violence had been the work of Rightist agents provocateurs trying to make the victorious Left look bad. Then suddenly he discovered...
...years. He became a hero when the Left victory in the Spanish general election last month sent him and 30,000 other rebels of 1934 rollicking out of Spain's jails. This week he became a liberator when he wangled from Spain's Republican Premier Manuel Azaña "local autonomy" for Catalonia. In Spain old issues never die, and States' Rights is the deathless battle cry of Catalonia & Companys...
Moderate Premier Azaña had anticipated Companys' States' Rights demands, but he was flabbergasted last week by another demand of the Left parties that had put him into power. It was that Spanish employers be forced to take back every employe they had dismissed since Jan. 1, 1934, for any reason whatsoever. This demand covered not only Socialist work men who had murdered loyal employes and bosses during the revolutionary troubles but also embezzling cashiers and dimwit incompetents...
...party coalition lines are so loosely drawn that, although the "Left" appeared to have won 253 seats, and the "Right" 220, there was no assurance that a vote of confidence could be won by the bilious Left Republican who suddenly found himself again Premier, sickly-green-complexioned Don Manuel Azaña. The President of the Republic, uneasy old Don Niceto Alcála Zamora, was not in the least sure that the unexpected ballot victory of the Left might not enflame the Right's scheming would-be Dictator, Don Jose Maria Gil Robles, to attempt a coup...