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While 18 Royalist henchmen of Spain's late, Royalist Dictator Primo de Rivera were being tried in one end of the Cortes Building last week, Royalist Deputies roasted short, stocky Republican Premier Manuel Azana in the Cortes Chamber, called him "a second Primo de Rivera-another Dictator...
Exactly one year ago Spain's Constituent Assembly drew up the new Republic's Constitutional article providing broadly for "separation of church and State." That same day dynamic, counter-religious Don Manuel Azana became Premier of Spain. Last week he was still Premier-no mean record, considering Spain's tribulations. Firmly entrenched. Premier Azana celebrated his first official birthday by presentation to the Cortes of Spain's new Law of Religious Orders. This act, which Spaniards believed certain to pass, will implement the Constitution's counter-religious clauses, much as the Volstead Act implements...
...behavior consequently is not much different from that of one who, having been robbed of his belongings, is obliged to ask his unjust despoiler for at least the use of them." In Mexico, as elsewhere, anticlericalism is tangled with politics. (In Santander last week Spain's Premier Manuel Azana told a cheering crowd that Spain is a lay state, that religious education will be abolished, a new law of religious congregations passed, and Article 26 of the Constitution, against religious orders, strictly enforced.) "Papalism" helped make bullnecked Plutarco Elias Calles Mexico's boss. Many another politician now employs...
...Everything depends upon how you use this liberty," warned Premier Azana. "For the sake of Catalonia and Spain, be careful...
Crowds standing in the square before the high porticoed Generalidad burst into El Segredores, the once proscribed Catalonian anthem, roared loudest at the verse about cutting off the heads of the proud Castilians. Manuel Azana grinned good naturedly. Even the white geese in the Cathedral cloister honked their loudest...