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...debate on this high-handed motion, the Left, led by egg-headed Socialist Indalecio Prieto, solidly demanded the President's resignation, insisting that the dissolution that had led to its accession to power had been "unnecessary." Mournfully replied the old monarchist, Count de Romanones, "To dismiss even a cloakroom attendant would require eight days of preparation while the President is to be dismissed in a few minutes." The Catholic and monarchist Right, which had lost power by Zamora's dissolution of the last Cortes, abstained from the voting, knowing that any President put in by the Left could...
Luis Quintanilla at that time bore much the same relationship to the then Socialist Government of Madrid that Edward Bruce of PWA fame does now to the New Deal in the U. S. He was a great friend of Madrid's Socialist Boss Indalecio Prieto, had just been commissioned to do a series of enormous murals in the Casa del Pueblo and the University. Knowing nothing about Mary Hoover except that she ate well and drank well, Artist Quintanilla took her on as his assistant, taught her to paint in fresco, kept her slaving on a scaffold all summer...
Three years ago Luis Quintanilla was a great man in Madrid. A burning revolutionist all his life, he plotted ardently for the overthrow of Alfonso XIII and with his own hands ran up the first Republican flag over the Royal Palace. Socialist Indalecio Prieto was Minister of Finance then and commissioned Luis Quintanilla to paint huge frescoes on the walls of the Casa del Pueblo and the great new University City out at Moncloa Park. Free-spending Prieto lost his job and Spain swung farther to the Right. Fearing a Fascist dictatorship, perhaps even a restoration of the Bourbon Monarchy...
...Serpiente!" ("You snake!") he hissed at grinning Socialist Leader Indalecio Prieto, then whirled upon Spain's great radical Republican, Don Manuel Azana. "Hombre de talento pero desalmado!" ("You man with a brain but no soul...
...TIME, Sept. 18). Last week new Premier Lerroux, a Bryanesque idealist, had held office for 21 days, had never dared to ask a vote of confidence from the Cortes and still dared not ask one. He knew that in a straight vote Man-With-No-Soul Azana and Snake Prieto would soon beat him. Wringing his hands, he announced the resignation of his Conservative Cabinet, started to walk out of the Cortes, jeered by Deputies who demanded that he stay and be voted down...