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From the ministerial bench of Spain's Cortes, chunky, gap-toothed Premier Manuel Azana has for two years led his Socialist Coalition Government in a rapid renovation of Spain's semifeudal society, steeped in piety, vised by the landowners. He was determined that no one should stop him until he had accomplished two things: 1) the substitution of non-sectarian schools for the Catholic Church schools that have taught Spaniards all they know for half a millennium; 2) the dispossession of the great grandee landowners. His great weapon is the Socialist labor unions of 1,000,000 well...
...sweltering summer Spaniards dodge fights. The Foreign Office referred Ambassador Bowers to the War Office, remarking that so much as to threaten a member of Spain's famed Guardia Civil is a serious military crime. The War Office balked Mr. Bowers by stating that War Minister Manuel Azana (who is also Premier of Spain) was on vacation, and that that was that. In Washington, after receiving cabled reports, U. S. Acting Secretary of State William Phillips called in Spanish Ambassador Juan Francisco de Cardenas, asked him pleasantly to bring pressure for the five's release...
Finally Ambassador Bowers caught Premier Azana and delivered his diplomatic punch. Mr. Bowers knew that the Premier could not antagonize the Guardia Civil, chief prop of Spanish law & order under the Republic as it was under the Monarchy, but surely bail-high if necessary-could be arranged? As Minister of War the Premier is Commander of the Guardia Civil. He conferred with its chiefs in Madrid, then cabled orders to Mallorca...
...might as well release the other three, Edmund Blodgett, Roderick Mead and Mrs. Lockwood's husband Clinton. Judge Vidal collected the five passports, ordered the bailed-out Americans to report daily to him, lest they leave Mallorca. In Madrid diplomatic compliments were exchanged between Ambassador Bowers and Premier Azana who promised ''expeditious conclusion" of the trial. It was expected to end in sentences of imprisonment so short that the five U. S. citizens can be declared to have served their time while being detained in jail, thus saving the honor of the Guardia Civil...
...messages to the Cortes protesting the section forbidding primary and secondary education by monks or nuns, insisting on the right to use the mediating power that is his under the Constitution. An open break threatened between Zamora's adherents and the Socialist followers of bag-jowled Premier Manuel Azana. It looked like bargain day to snaggle-toothed President Francisco Macia of Catalonia. He hurried over to Madrid to swap the votes of his 40 deputies for additional home rights for Catalonia, and a loan...