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...vast surprise of Premier Manuel Azana and his Socialist coalition government, municipal elections in 2,500 Spanish towns and villages last month rolled up impressive Conservative and Royalist majorities. It was the first nationwide chance women have ever had to vote in Spain, the first nationwide chance Spaniards have had to express themselves on the Republic...
...soon as returns reached the Cortes, Conservative deputies were up in their seats yelling for power. Oppositionists gathered under the spokesmanship of a fiery Sevillian, Martinez Barrios. Premier Azana, fighting not only for the Socialist coalition but for the Republic, called on each of the opposition leaders personally to beg for a truce. In his peppery, nasal Andalusian voice Senor Barrios snapped...
...would never resign until the law of religious congregations was passed, breaking the power of the Church, and a general program for the Republic established. Conservatives have kept the Church bill, passed piecemeal, from becoming law by festooning its articles with hundreds of amendments, talking for days. Premier Azana last fortnight drummed up the votes of every Cabinet Minister, even of deputies out on diplomatic missions, to jam through by one vote what Spanish deputies call the "Guillotine," a cloture rule which the government can invoke with a simple majority. Then off went all the amendments to the remaining articles...
...friend of dictatorships, the "guillotine" (which must be voted anew for each of the government's "fundamental laws") made Premier Azana first cousin to a dictator. Dictators breed revolution. Manuel Azana well realized that fact and moved to forestall it by ordering the arrest of all army officers whose loyalty to the Republic is in doubt. Chief prisoner was General Manuel Goded. After the fall of the monarchy two years ago General Goded was in high Republican favor for having started a plot to oust Dictator Primo de Rivera in 1929, for having told King Alfonso that his troops...
While Madrid police were carrying out a government order to seize all copies of a local Fascist newspaper two things happened last week. The Socialist Cabinet of Premier Manuel Azana received a vote of confidence 201 to 1, and Madrid youths marched through the Capital shouting: "Abajo con Hitler! Fuera con Fascismo!" ("Down with Hitler-out with Fascism...