Word: lerroux
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...Spaniards there is something decidedly special about an English Lord. Spanish beggars are apt to address any tourist as "My Lord"; if that fails, as "My God"; and finally, if they get no coppers, as "Rosbiff Goddam!" Last week shaggy old Premier Alejandro Lerroux, who put down the proletarian revolt by having over 3,000 rebels shot, felt that the least he could do was to receive Lord Listowel & Commission in his private rooms at the Cortes. Spanish blood was up, Spanish honor at stake. Same afternoon, in the Cortes, Spain's No. 1 Catholic politician, Fascist...
Suppressor was Premier Alejandro Lerroux, sole old-style Republican in Spain's Rightist Cabinet of Catholics. Monarchists and Fascists. Like Britain's Ramsay MacDonald, he is famed for his old wars on tyranny, for his soft and gentlemanly heart and. to the mind of Labor, for his betrayal of democracy. He was backed last week solidly by the Army, Navy, Civil Guards, retired Army officers, noblemen and women of Spain...
Chief revolter was Francisco Largo Caballero, who claims to be a purer Marxist than Stalin. As allies Largo Caballero had beguiled the pinkish Socialists of onetime Premier Manuel Azaña and the sectional patriots of perennially seceding Catalonia. Señor Lerroux first smashed the Catalan revolt (TIME, Oct. 15). Last week he turned on the pure class war provided by Largo Caballero. As fast as Lerroux jailed anarchist committees, new ones arose. Revolt kept ducking for cover, popping out in a new place, like a prairie gopher. It made soldiers and police trigger-nervous but they remained stanch...
Short of milk and weary of bloodletting, Madrid came out into the sun of "The Day of the Race." Strikers trickled back to work. The banks contributed a bonus for the Army. And Premier Lerroux handsomely declared that stories of atrocities by rebels were "exaggerated and unconfirmed...
Early last week the Cortes (parliament) reassembled and the Conservative-coalition Cabinet of Premier Samper fell. President Alcala Zamora asked idealistic Alejandro Lerroux to form another Government. He did, giving three seats to the reactionary Catholic Party which was largely responsible for Samper's fall...