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Money Talks. This week Generalissimo Franco hurled new offensive-? with redoubled violence in efforts to take Madrid swiftly, and a dispatch from the capital reported that President Manuel Azaňa of Spain had made all preparations to flee, if necessary, to. Valencia, whither he had sent several truckloads of his personal effects...
...Unwisely the Government refused to allow Calvo's body to lie in state anywhere, barred a mob of 30,000 Rightists from the cemetery where he was being buried. When the crowd gave the Fascist shout, "Up Spain!" Assault Guardsmen fired, killed five, wounded three. Forehanded, President Manuel Azaña ordered the Army and Civil Guards mobilized in quarters, ordered a roundup of Rightist leaders, jammed them into jails. Talkative Rightists had begun telling about a great Army revolt that was due any day and that was to have set up José Calvo Sotelo as President...
Interpreting the revolt as a vote of noconfidence. Premier Casares Quiroga resigned. President Azaña chose a fellow-member of the Left Centre, President of the Cortes Diego Martinez-Barrio, who in turn resigned to make way for another Left Centrist José Giralt Pereira. distinguished scientist. Madrid University's Chancellor and old friend of Aza...
President Azaña is a real Republican, but the Socialists who swept him into power in the February elections want a "proletarian dictatorship." Last week he offered the Premiership to the only Socialist leader who does not believe in revolution : Indalecio Prieto. Prieto declined it. President Azaña offered it to the Radical Democratic leader. Speaker of the Cortes Diego Martinez Barrio, who also declined. Finally he offered it to another Republican, Minister of the Interior Santiago Casares Quiroga, who for two months has had the delicate job of suppressing Socialist riots and church-burnings without making...
Premier Quiroga is a tough, tense little lawyer from the northwestern province of Galicia. Rich, honest, a spectacular conversationalist, he has had a hard time, in explosive Spain, living down his effective suppression of the Anarchist riots in 1932 when he was Minister of Interior in Manuel Azaña's first Cabinet...