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Up from the long blue Cabinet Bench in the Spanish Cortes sprang portly, white- mustached old Premier Alejandro Lerroux last week, choking and trembling with rage.
Certainly Don Manuel, chunky and relentless, has no heart, no pity for his enemies. He ruled Spain as Premier for all but a few weeks of the past two years, was abruptly dropped as "too radical" by chubby, Church-loving President Niceto Alcala Zamora (TIME, Sept. 18). Last week new...
"I will not stay!" cried the badgered Premier, bursting into tears as he left the Cortes. "I cannot permit myself to be made one of those carnival rag dolls at which the public throw balls."
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" 189 to 91.
From the ministerial bench of Spain's Cortes, chunky, gap-toothed Premier Manuel Azana has for two years led his Socialist Coalition Government in a rapid renovation of Spain's semifeudal society, steeped in piety, vised by the landowners. He was determined that no one should stop him...