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...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 on the British cruiser Enterprise. From Mexico City Spanish Ambassador Alvarez del Vayo called Minister of Public Works Indalecio Prieto by transatlantic telephone. "Why are you sad?" he asked. "Is the revolution succeeding?" Replied Minister Prieto: "I am sad because this call is costing 15 pesetas a minute. The Republic is stronger than ever. Adios...
Finance-Indalecio Prieto...
Also in the Cabinet, but not recently in jail, were Minister of State Alejandro Lerroux (who will hold down Spain's seat on the council of the League of Nations), Minister of War Manuel Azana and Minister of Finance Indalecio Prieto...
...congressmen and sent to President Obregon, who was vacationing at a little fishing village on Lake Chapala, alleged that General Arnulfo Gomez, chief of the Mexico City garrison, had commissioned one Captain Viscarra, at the head of 200 men, to assassinate certain members of Congress, in particular one Jorge Prieto Laurens, Governor of the State of San Luis Potosi...