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...wounded, ten killed, including one Nicanor Puerto who committed suicide. The Government promised General Sanjurjo would not be executed "unless the law left no alternative." Disloyal Civil Guards were stripped of their epaulets. President Alcala Zamora distributed 500,000 pesetas in rewards to the republic's heroes. In Konigswart, Czechoslovakia, onetime King Alfonso denied he had any hand in the revolt, expressed grief over the bloodshed. His third son, Prince Juan Carlos, who was reported to have been the royalists' choice for King, was in a Ceylon hospital with malaria he had caught while cruising as a midshipman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Coup Recouped | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

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