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Long-jawed Alfonso XIII of Spain listened last week in Seville, amid an imposing group of gold-braided notables, to a high-sounding address by Spain's Dictator General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. The dictator gesticulated, emphasized, smiled, scowled, pointed. To foreign ears it would have sounded like a declaration indeed, perhaps of grave warning, perhaps defiance. What the dictator was leading up to, however, was only this...
...situation is far worse in Italy. There all the correspondents bootlick Prime Minister Mussolini or are thrown out. In Spain the censorship of Dictator Primo de Rivera is theoretically absolute, but the indolent Spanish temperament allows correspondents to smuggle out pretty much what they please...
...suite at the Palacio Real in Madrid, and would not allow any member of the Royal Family to leave the palace. Since he has emerged from these days of meditation and prayer, Alfonso de Bourbon has seemed listless and melancholic. Last week it was thought that General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera has found this royal mood a favorable one in which to induce the King to sign several more decrees strengthening the Rivera grip of iron on Spain...
Eighteen artillery garrisons recently showed signs of mutiny against the Dictator (TIME, Feb. n). The dissolution decrees of last week were Primo de Rivera's swift revenge. No less than 2,000 artillery officers-comparable in the U. S. to 2,000 West Pointers-were thus booted out of their jobs...
With the dickering for an audience with His Majesty going on, Dictator Primo de Rivera again showed his power by peremptorily dismissing without explanation the Governor of Seville, Jose Cruz Conde, whom General Primo de Rivera himself appointed four years...