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Since the Cabinet had resigned it could not, under Spain's Constitution, be voted down, but Socialist Speaker Julian Besteiro ignored the Constitution, encouraged the excited Cortes to vote "no confidence...
Warned Julian Besteiro, President of the Cortes...
...auspices;* 2) President Alcala Zamora resigned in protest and 50 pious Basque and Navarra Deputies marched out of the National Assembly shouting "Long live Christ the King!"; 3) Parliamentary leaders gathered jabbering in the lobby, decided that War Minister Azana ought to be President, told Speaker Julian ("Bell Smasher") Besteiro of their decision...
Pealing his bell, which he pounds on his desk and smashes when annoyed, Speaker Besteiro called the exhausted Assembly to order. Had anyone any objection, he asked, to the party leader's choice of War Minister Manuel Azana to be Provisional President and Premier? No one had the slightest objection. Dead tired Deputies rested their raw throats, their heaving lungs. Amid utter silence Spain's new Chief Executive was chosen unanimously (the 50 pious clericals remaining absent). Up the steps of the Assembly Tribune at once climbed President Azana, brisk and stern. Jerking a paper from his waistcoat...
...method: when most violent bell-swinging fails to bring Spanish Deputies to order, Speaker Besteiro pounds until his desk is deeply dented, his bell completely shattered...