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Without comment or elaboration Don Miguel's words were published. Meanwhile bombing planes were sent to circle above the revolting garrison. They dropped no explosives but courteous, imperative leaflets reading: "Surrender immediately, and return to your barracks. If you do not, you will be bombed tomorrow." Presently Lieutenant-Colonel Annibal Molto, commanding the rebels, drew his pistol, turned it upon himself, died like a gentleman and a Spaniard. His soldiers quietly awaited the arrival of an army corps from Madrid, then whooped up a hearty cheer for Dictator and King...
...Sanchez Guerra has been living in Paris for some years, and, last week, he reached Valencia from France on a small especially chartered steamer?two days late. The delay?occasioned by a breakdown of the steamer?necessitated a circular telegram to revolt leaders throughout Spain, ordering postponement. Apparently the garrison at Ciudad failed to receive the order, went off halfcocked, and thus revealed the plot to the government...
...When the steamer finally reached Valencia, Senor Sanchez Guerra rushed to General Girona, Captain-General of the district, and urged that the revolution be instantly launched, since one garrison had already revolted. General Girona hesitated, asked three hours in which to consider. Meanwhile Senor Sanchez Guerra addressed the garrison...
...suggested .that The Nation was too solemn, and that its editor, Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, ought to be taken to a night club occasionally, and shot full of synthetic hell...
...nights, and panhandled his bed and board along the Bowery. "Mr. Villard needs bitterness, not expensive fun. He has had the latter all of his life. Heywood Broun needs a little iron, too. This country just now badly needs a few bitter men like William Lloyd Garrison. It stinks with a well-fed, mellow complacency, the spirit that elected Herbert Hoover...