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...embers of a generation-old Spanish feud kindled again last week. Wicked darting flames of revolution spurted high at Barcelona, industrial tinder box of Catalonian unrest. Upon the city and all Spain Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera clapped his oldfashioned, iron extinguisher of smothering censorship. With all commercial telegraph and telephone lines completely silent throughout Spain, voluminous clouds of rumor billowed with the awesome menace of uncertain portent...
Last week he apparently considered himself sufficiently recovered from a series of intestinal disorders to ride horseback once more. First, his motor car roared at top speed up the Corso Umberto Primo, dashed out the Porta del Popolo, and climbed the lovely heights of the Borghese Gardens, now perhaps the most beautiful public park in Rome. There, immaculate in formal riding costume, he stepped out. His horse was led up. A crowd of Fascists cheered as he climbed into the saddle...
Premier* General Primo de Rivera. "I think Dictator Rivera is the greatest strategist in the world. He is one of the greatest patriots I have ever known. It is he who is working out the problems hundreds of years old, and he is doing it quietly and carefully after a revolution in which not one civilian was shot or sent to prison. He feels that the military should not govern nor be the first line of defense. The army, he holds, is the last line of defense, and he is bringing the citizens to see it that...
From Madrid, Premier Primo de Rivera sent out a letter to the President of the Press Association. He expressed the wish that newspaper publishers combine in the publication of a collective newspaper in every town on Sunday. A dictator's command is best expressed as a wish...
...Significance. Observers noted that the new Government has announced its intention of retaining the present censorship of the Spanish press, and opined that it will keep an all but dictatorial checkrein upon national activities. None the less Premier Primo de Rivera made statements which were interpreted as foreshadowing the resuscitation, "by early June," of the suspended Constitution and Cortes (Parliament). He remarked: "All will be made known as the times become opportune...