Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signing. Pen poised, King Alfonso XIII hesitated, last week, over the signing of what is destined to become a historic document. At his side was Lieutenant General Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marquis de Estella, Grandee of Spain, Dictator under the ample title of President of the Council. His presence seemingly threw a dark shadow over the Spanish crown. The pen descended at the foot of the royal desk. It wrote: "Alfonso...
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 constitution and the virtual abolition of the Cortes (Parliament) (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). In its implications it is clearly designed to perpetuate the Primo de Rivera régime...
Decree. The nature of the document was a royal decree convoking a National Assembly. It was supposedly the realization of a promise, now almost a year late, made by Dictator Primo de Rivera, to restore parliamentary government to Spain; actually it does no more than centralize the legislature in the hands of Primo himself. Its temper is typical of the revolt against democracy; its obvious aims are to institute a more efficient government, perhaps to emulate the Platonic conception of the state, modified to meet modern needs; but it goes no further than to cloak constitutionality with the mantle...
...declaration, since become famous as Document No. 2, Mr. de Valera, set forth the aims of his Republican group: government vested solely in the Irish people; association with full Dominion status with the states of the British Commonwealth of Nations; recognition of "His Britannic Majesty" as the head of the association. This, said Mr. de Valera will bring the "Republic to the brow of the precipice." His proposals were refused, however. They meant, in effect, a separate sovereignty for Ireland instead of recognizing the common citizenship of the Commonwealth. Such conditions were not acceptable to the London government...
...document declares...