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Royal Coup. Despite Republican riots, judicious observers felt that His Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII had immeasurably strengthened his own position in the past fortnight. After swearing in the strong Royalist cabinet of Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar (TIME, March 2), Alfonso went to Great Britain to visit his ailing mother-in-law, Princess Beatrice. He realized that Spain's most immediate problem was not Republicanism, which like the poor he has always with him, but the parlous state of the Spanish peseta, which since the Dictatorship of the late Primo de Rivera has slumped from 5.89 to 10.66 to the dollar...
...advances, and humbly bows to the Admiral upon the Throne. His Most Catholic Majesty* is about to hear the oaths of allegiance which will bind to him the bodies, minds and souls of his new Cabinet. Beneath the crucifix lies a Bible. Upon it swear Prime Minister Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar y Cabanas and, one by one, all the rest. Thus last week King Alfonso XIII, last absolute monarch in western Europe, switched back into the vein of dictatorship-this time with a salt-sea flavor. In receiving the oaths of his two military dictators (the late General Primo...
Venezuela: Rheumy, blue-spectacled Dictator Juan Vincente Gomez puppet President Juan Bautista Perez dedicated a white marble pantheon over the ashes of El Libertador. Dictator Gomez remained prudently on his heavily guarded model farm. Oldsters mourned the fact that Cenizo was no longer living to take part in the ceremony. Cenizo, as all Caracans remember, was a dog of uncertain parentage who for nearly ten years slept on the base of the Bolivar statue in the Plaza Bolivar, appointed himself its official guardian, grew fat and imperious on the bounty of cafe proprietors, was the only dog ever...
...Venezuela's old Commander-in-Chief moved quickly. Against the 50 (or 500) rash rebels he sent the troops of General Eustoquio Gomez, of General Pedro Maria Cardenas, of General Léon Jurado Felix Galavis and of General Juan Fernandez. To Acting President Juan Bautista Perez he sent the following telegram...
...about the population of Chicago; but last week this sovereign state was troubled by the destruction of its entire merchant marine. The destruction was trivial in its way, because the Bolivian merchant marine consisted of a single ship, the Presidente Saavedra, named for onetime (1921-26) President Dr. Bautista Saavedra* of Bolivia. In the spacious harbor of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the one-ship fleet of Bolivia slowly began to take water last week from an unrevealed cause, then sank. Bolivians are vexed because their country has no seaport, being completely surrounded by Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and (completing the clockwise...