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...secret conferences in Paris, send the Marques de Tena hotfoot off to Madrid to beg the various Royalist groups in Spain to forget their differences for the time being and present a united front in the forthcoming June elections under that weepy eyed, white whiskered old gentleman, Jose Sanchez Guerra, Prime Minister shortly before the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera...
...Madrid, Marques de Tena, after blandly denying to reporters that he had received any "orders" from King Alfonso, ran against an immediate snag. White whiskered Senor Sanchez Guerra stubbornly refused to have truck or traffic with any Spanish Royalists who had defended or been members of Primo de Rivera's dictatorship...
...field marshal. Smart King. Soon all around King Alfonso rose, denser than usual, the heady perfume of praise. All his courtiers told His Majesty that he had just played superlatively well a most difficult hand at statecraft, finessing the Republican parties, easing out that old rebel Jose Sanchez Guerra whom he had "cleverly" called as Prime Minister (TIME, Feb. 23), consolidating the Monarchist parties, and finally setting up under Admiral Aznar the most thoroughly aristocratic Cabinet which even Spain has had in years...
...told the King that the situation was even graver than he thought!" flashed former Prime Minister Jose Sanchez Guerra, leader of an abortive plot two years ago to overthrow the Dictatorship (TIME, Feb. 11, 1929). "His Majesty came forward and clasped me in his arms, saying, 'It is good to see you, Jose...
...Count de Romanones expected to be called as Prime Minister, King Alfonso fooled him next day by jollying into office the old rebel around whom he had flung his arms, Jose Sanchez Guerra. Said he, after a second visit to the palace: "The King flattered me with eulogistic phrases. I expressed my thanks and shall attempt to form a cabinet satisfactory to his desires." Asked if his cabinet would call a Constitutional Convention, he replied: "Doubtless, but you ask the program of a government which is not yet formed...