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Paunchy, shaggy-haired Premier Briand of France met taut-waisted, sleek Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera of Spain at the Quai d' Orsay last week...
Reports from Spain and France indicated that Dictator-P r e m i e r Primo de Rivera had stamped so vigorously upon the embers of the miltary revolt (TIME, July 5 et seq.) that he, too, was able to stamp off to Paris with no fears except for Paris hoodlums...
During the week despatches indicated an exceedingly grave situation in Spain. The potent army juntas ("committees": military trade unions) were reported to have turned almost solidly against Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera. He was said to have responded by arresting over 400 army officers, and to have imprisoned as a hostage the daughter of insurgent General Luque who had managed to escape to France. While the Spanish censorship obscured all details, returning travelers reported pessimistically that the De Rivera Government, unable to rely upon the loyalty of the Army, has hastily armed the police with full war equipment...
...Franco-Spanish frontier, eagerly questioned travelers from Spain declared: "Weyler is after Primo's scalp again." They meant, of course, General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquis of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi. He had, it was reported, lent the weight of his notorious influence to a band of his henchmen, who counted on marching from Barcelona to Madrid and Power-even as Dictator Primo made exactly that same "march à la Mussolini" (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). The active leaders of the revolt were 18 generals and a round dozen of Liberal and Communist politicians. General Aguilera, onetime Minister...
...lived down, the odium of his bloodthirsty governorship of Cuba (1896-97)-a direct and major cause of the Spanish-American War. His position among the older and potent hierarchy of Spanish officers was never successfully challenged until last fall (TIME, Oct. 19). At that time General (Dictator) Primo de Rivera, representative of the younger military clique, ousted him from the gold-braided citadel, which he occupied as Chief of Staff of the Spanish Army. Having plotted energetically for eight months, according to despatches, he established himself on the Island of Majorca (100 miles from Barcelona) and loosed his revenge...