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Died. Alejandro Lerroux, 85, five times Radical Party Premier of turbulent Republican Spain;* and lifelong antimonarchist; in Madrid, where he returned under Franco amnesty...
...Spaniards took alarm last September when perennial Premier Alejandro Lerroux resigned once more and passed the Government to his fellow Radical (actually Conservative) Joaquin Chapaprieta. But all Spain sat up last week when Monarchist Deputies screamed in the Cortes that Lerroux's resignation had come immediately after President Niceto Alcala Zamora received a letter from a Mexican gambler and promoter named Daniel Straus who unfolded a strange and scandalous story of 2,000,000 pesetas worth of bribes to bigwigs of Lerroux's party...
Promoter Straus had a patented electric roulette wheel, wanted to open casinos at San Sebastian and Formentor. When both his casinos were raided, he asked for his money back. A parliamentary commission investigated his charges, reported last week with gravity that they had reason to believe that Lerroux's Nephew Aurelio, his onetime Minister of the Interior Rafael Salazar Alonso and half a dozen other Radicals had taken Straus's money. Old Lerroux, his white mustaches trembling with rage, replied that it was a fiendish Monarchist plot to split Spain's Centre coalition. Mexican Straus could...
When every Madrid newspaper of consequence denounced the Commission as an "affront to Spain," French Commissioner Bourthomieux discreetly took the first train for Paris. The Britons and the Czech stuck, to be jeered by hoodlums in the streets. Armed with a letter from Premier Lerroux, they sped to Asturias, the "Atrocities Province," presented their credentials at Oviedo to Major Doval, the Military Acting Governor. "Certainly, my Lord and Miss Wilkinson," beamed the Major, "it will be a pleasure...
...Lord," he nervously observed, "Premier Lerroux has made me personally responsible for your safety. Perhaps now that you have seen everything in Oviedo your object in coming to Spain has been attained...