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...General Damaso Berenguer y Fuste, bull-necked Prime Minister of Spain, stepped from his private office last week, waved an amiable plump hand at a group of reporters whom he knew personally, advanced with his brother and personal adjutant, Luis Berenguer y Fuste, toward the elevator. A pale young man by the name of Joaquin Llizo pulled a small pistol from his pocket, deliberately fired one shot into the ceiling. One of the duties of a Spanish Prime Minister's adjutant is wrestling with would-be assassins. Adjutant Berenguer promptly grappled with Pistoleer Llizo. General Berenguer spun...
Stepping straight up to his tormentor Son Miguel boxed General Queipo de Llano first on his left ear, next on his right, then punched his brandied nose. "C-c-consider yourself under military arrest!" spluttered the General. Next day Spain's new Dictator, General Damaso Berenguer, took a short cut out of an embarrassing situation, ordered Lieu tenant Miguel Primo de Rivera out of the country. Last week a police escort saw him as far as Hendaye, across the Spain-France border. A third son of the fallen Dictator was serving last week with the Spanish air force...
Month ago the champagne cocktail Duke* became Minister of Education in the new Spanish Cabinet of Dictator Damaso Berenguer, successor to ousted General Primo de Rivera (TIME, Feb. 10). Last week the Ministry of State and Foreign Affairs, suppressed during the regime of Dictator Primo de Rivera who dealt directly with foreign Ambassadors, was reestablished by Royal decree. Next day it was King Alfonso's pleasure that his crony, the Duke of Alba, should step up from Minister of Education to Foreign Minister?the highest ranking cabinet post...
...High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief of Spanish forces in Morocco was Don Damaso Berenguer, and a disastrous bloody hash he made of it. Potent, resourceful Moroccan Sultan Abd-El-Krim repeatedly wiped out Spanish forces larger than his own, and in 1922 the High Commissioner resigned in dis grace, greatly weakening by his fall the prestige of his patron King Alfonso...
Prime Minister (Foreign Minister) and Minister of War?General Damaso Berenguer...