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That was on July 18, 1936. Five days earlier Europe had been warned of the extent of unrest in Spain by the murder of Monarchist Deputy José Calvo Sotelo, onetime Finance Minister, at that time head of the Monarchist organization Renovatión Española. He had been taken from his Madrid apartment by uniformed Assault Guards of the Spanish Government, delivered dead to a cemetery caretaker. Sensing a big story, knowing that armed guards were patrolling Spanish cities, newshawks in Paris woke up string correspondents along the Spanish border, put in a call to Oran, in French...
...financial backing came from the "Richest Man in Spain,'' Monarchist Count of Romanones and racketeer-tycoon Juan March, the uneducated, onetime tobacco smuggler. Date of the uprising was set for July 25, 1936, the feast of Santiago (St. James). The murder of Fascist Deputy Jose Calvo Sotelo on July 12 pulled the trigger prematurely...
...uprisings, the conservative Negrin Cabinet was in danger. Paris last week had a different story. Government gangsters had kidnapped Poum's Nin from his cell, shot him and dumped him in a roadside ditch, just as year ago other gangsters (in police uniforms) murdered Fascist Deputy José Calvo Sotelo and unwittingly pulled the trigger for the entire war (TIME, July...
Flags all over Rightist Spain went to half-staff early last week. This marked the first anniversary of the assassination in Madrid last year of Rightist Martyr No. i, onetime Finance Minister Jose Calvo Sotelo who was taken-for-a-ride by uniformed guards of the Madrid Government. Its head then as now was President Don Manuel Azana who last week was in Valencia. Few days after the Rightists mourned Calvo Sotelo, they celebrated with bullfights and fiestas last week the day on which they rose against Republicans, Socialists, Anarchists and Communists of Spain. Last week British-owned ore mines...
...Journals front yard. It was announced that he had acquired the feeble Providence News-Tribune (evening) which had been nursed along by Democratic Senator Peter G. Gerry as a political sounding-board to 25,000 pairs of readers' ears. Out went dignified, high-collared Editor Joaquim B. Calvo. Up went Ralph E. Bailey from his job as head of the News-Tribune State House staff to be managing editor. With the News-Tribune, Mr. O'Hara acquired an Associated Press franchise, a chance to go directly to Providence's 252,981 potential newspaper readers with more popular...