Word: coups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Coup. Despite Republican riots, judicious observers felt that His Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII had immeasurably strengthened his own position in the past fortnight. After swearing in the strong Royalist cabinet of Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar (TIME, March 2), Alfonso went to Great Britain to visit his ailing mother-in-law, Princess Beatrice. He realized that Spain's most immediate problem was not Republicanism, which like the poor he has always with him, but the parlous state of the Spanish peseta, which since the Dictatorship of the late Primo de Rivera has slumped from 5.89 to 10.66 to the dollar...
March 25?Convention of the restored Spanish parliament; at Madrid. Last previous parliamentary sitting: September 1923 (soon suspended by Primo de Rivera's coup d'état of Sept...
...Southern Revolution" at Arequipa (TIME, March 2). No. 2 was the "Naval Coup," when transports loaded with troops to quell the "Southern Revolution" were held up by their battleship escorts and President Sanchez Cerro was forced by navy officers to resign (TIME, March 9). No. 3 last week was the "Military Coup...
March 25-Convention of the restored Spanish parliament; at Madrid. Last previous parliamentary sitting: September 1923 (suspended by Primo de Rivera's historic coup d'état of Sept...
March 25?Convention of the restored Spanish parliament; at Madrid. Last previous parliamentary sitting: September 1923 (suspended by Primo (de Rivera's historic coup d'etat of Sept...