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...civil war. Finally he picked a political dummy for Alejandro Lerroux named Ricardo Samper Ibanez, an owlish, spectacled lawyer from Valencia and Lerroux's onetime Minister of Industry & Commerce. All but three of the Lerroux Cabinet were reappointed. Most notable omission was cultivated dome-browed Salvador de Madariaga, trilingual veteran of dozens of League conferences at Geneva...
Commissioner Knox sent a vivid, formal report on his dog-pit to the League's committee on the Saar Plebiscite. Sitting in Geneva, the three committee members, Italy's Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Spain's Salvador de Madariaga and Argentina's José M. Cantilo, could scarcely believe what they read. Last week they sent for Mr. Knox. He laid aside his dog-whip, scudded into Geneva, told the commissioners that Nazi terrorists are already acting as if they own the Saar. To reenforce his 1,100 police, many of whom have been bribed by one faction...
Bounding to his feet after Sir John sat down, Spain's Salvador de Madariaga cried: "Practical men, whose political shortsightedness is incurable, would like to limit our efforts by saying 'Provided we can reach a practical solution, let us pass a sponge over the rest.' That is to say. 'Provided I can receive a dividend this year, never mind about the capital.' To this madness, Spain desires to say 'No!' The League Covenant will perish if we permit Chinese Manchuria to become Japanese Manchukuo...
Spain's forthright Don Salvador de Madariaga created a sensation in the pussyfooting Council by his description of the creation of Manchukuo. "which I will call quite plainly invasion of Manchuria!" Playing safe, the Council then delayed discussion of the Lytton Report to Nov. 14, which Japan's representative seemed to consider only a partial victory...
...vain Spanish Ambassador Salvador de Madariaga protested that the Lausanne Conference seemed to be "dictating" to the League Council. With glacial courtesy Sir John called the Spaniard "the watchdog of the constitutional rights and powers of the League," then steamrollered his own program through the Council, thus making himself Chairman of the Preparatory Commission...