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Speaker Santiago Alba entered the semicircular hall of the Cortes in Madrid one afternoon last week. It was time for the session to begin. The Government was proposing to extend Spain's handy "state of alarm" another month to scare off a general farm-labor strike. A trade treaty...
Meanwhile for three days Spain was without a Government. Rows with the radicals in the Cortes, whose rioting brothers were carefully omitted from the amnesty bill, forced the resignation of staunch Rightish Premier Alejandro Lerroux and his cabinet. Tugging at his unruly hair, scratching at his stubbly chin, President Alcala...
"Prevention" had notably failed to prevent. The Socialist and Syndicalist labor unions had learned the power of the strike. Their representatives in the Cortes had broken two Lerroux Cabinets. As regu- larly as clocks in a clock shop, the workers struck. By last week the plunging bronze horses on the...
Died. Francisco Macia y Llusa, 74, "The Grandfather," President of Catalonia; after an appendectomy; in Barcelona. After long years of ridicule and exile, he was chiefly responsible for Catalonia's present autonomy under the Spanish Republic. When the monarchy fell, he proclaimed a Catalan Republic five hours before Madrid...
It should have been a sober impressive moment when the first constitutionally elected Cortes since the Second Republic assembled in Madrid last week and took their seats in the Congreso de los Diputados. But nobody had time to pay any attention to them for all hell was breaking loose in...