Word: damaso
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...Citizen Primo de Rivera leaves the Palace, still a Marques, still a Duke, announcing formally to the press: "I have resigned as Prime Minister because of ill health. . . . The King has been pleased to call as my successor the Chief of his Military Household, Lieut. General Don Damaso Berenguer y Fuste, Duke of Xauen ... a man of great serenity of judgment, possessed of much discretion and dearly beloved. . . .-* I am highly pleased . . . chance to calm my nerves and rest. . . . Don't quarrel over these boys! . . . How pretty you are my dear. . . . Charming, charming...
...Luis Silvela was appointed Spanish High Commissioner in Morocco on February 14, 1923, in succession to General Damaso Berenguer, retired. General Berenguer was charged by public sentiment with negligence in connection with the Spanish defeat of 1921. Recently he caused a pleasant surprise by waiving his immunity to trial by demanding to be tried before the Supreme Court of War and Marine...