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While 18 Royalist henchmen of Spain's late, Royalist Dictator Primo de Rivera were being tried in one end of the Cortes Building last week, Royalist Deputies roasted short, stocky Republican Premier Manuel Azana in the Cortes Chamber, called him "a second Primo de Rivera-another Dictator!"
Heavy, heavy over the head of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. hangs the threat that Spain's Cortes (parliament) will declare the franchise for its big subsidiary. Compania Telefonica Nacional de Espana, null & void. The threat has hung over I. T. & T.'s head for eleven months, and last...
Exactly one year ago Spain's Constituent Assembly drew up the new Republic's Constitutional article providing broadly for "separation of church and State." That same day dynamic, counter-religious Don Manuel Azana became Premier of Spain. Last week he was still Premier-no mean record, considering Spain...
Eight hours before the General was to be shot the cabinet meeting broke up in confusion. General Sanjurjo ordered a seven-course lunch. Premier Azana called a second cabinet meeting while the General had his siesta. When he awoke he learned that the second meeting had ended without a decision...
To the Cortes (Parliament) smiling Premier Azana passed off lightly the fact that three additional generals suspected of a plot to restore Alfonso XIII, had to be placed under arrest recently. "All these are simply isolated cases of indiscipline," said Premier Azana. He tut-tutted rumors that the Army is...