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Having inspected the Spanish land defenses, General Primo Rivera retired to the battleship Alfonso XIII, in Alhucemas Bay; and from thence issued peans of praise, in honor of General Saro and Fernandez Perez, who commanded the actual Spanish advance. Cried Primo, triumphant: "From now on there will be much war-If the rebels desire peace it will be they who ask for it. . . .Soon I shall be back in Madrid...
...sense discouraged or reduced the resistance of their enemies. A number of tribal desertions to the Riffians was also reported. Marshal Petain, his face bronzed by the African sun, landed at Ceuta, en route to Paris from the front (TIME, Aug. 3) conversed long and secretly with General Primo Rivera, head of the Spanish military directory. Later, the Marshal disembarked at Marseille. Said...
...propaganda has so incensed the Spanish royalists that they issue challenges to duels at the rate of 200 a day. But Ibanez's fire, or rather his lunge, is not so easily drawn. With rolling eyes and teeth champing like castanets, he declares grandiloquently that only King Alphonso or Primo de Rivera may match rapiers with him. What could be more audacious than a novelist laying aside a vitriolic pen to challenge a crowned head of Europe? It is not likely that the pride of a Hapsburg-Bourbon will brook such an affront. Yet, even in this case, Ibanez...
America's first view of him-hitherto his fear of seasickness kept him in Europe-was of a hearty man, with great gusto and joy of life, keen enough to dodge political questions about Ibanez, "I don't paint that kind of a portrait" King Alfonso, Primo Rivera. No, indeed; he would talk about the popularity of Belmonte, Spain's great bull fighter now in Peru and coming soon to the U. S., Belmonte whom he has painted three times. He would say tactful things about U. S. art, such as: "Your artists have more talent than...
...monarch; and Great Britain is the master. In Russia, the proletariat is sovereign; but the Moscow oligarchy is the keeper of the sovereignty. In Italy, Vitorio Emanuele is King; and Benito Mussolini is master. So Spain, too, has her monarchs and masters. King Alfonso is the real master; Primo Rivera is an accident which was the result of a revolt (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). He was not strong enough to fight the Monarchy, even had he wished to. For the moment, he had obtained the master hand. Alfonso was forced to recognize him or start a civil...