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In a perfect setting of perfect order, perfect weather, perfect enthusiasm, not top boisterous, nott too restrained, King Alfonso XIII, accompanied by his master, Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera, opened the new consultative National Assembly* (TIME, Sept. 26) in the Palace of the Cortes (Parliament), Madrid.
History alone can determine the full significance of this act; opinion may condemn it as politically immoral. The document was signed, critics agree, not by a kingly king but by a puppet of the Dictator. Moreover, it was signed on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the suppression of...
The Cortes (Parliament) has not sat since 1923 because Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera has prevented King Alfonso XIII from performing his Constitutional duty to convene the Cortes.
When is another Cortes to assemble? Dictator Primo de Rivera virtually declared "Never!" in answer to this question last week, by announcing that next September there will be convened a new National Assmebly (not the Cortes) for the purpose of drafting and proclaiming a new Spanish Constitution.
Economists recalled that, before the invention and commercial success of artificial silks in the past few years, abortive efforts to transplant silk production from the Orient to the New World were periodic. Cortes introduced silkworms in Mexico. James I tried to establish them in Virginia in 1609. A law still...