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Rumors of Spanish political crises are as persistent as the odor of the onions named after the Iberian land. But Captain General Primo Rivera, "Spain's Mussolini," last week insisted that the inescapable effluvium savors not of crises but of peace, joy, contentment...
These financial difficulties pinch the social toe of Rumania's Queen, Marie. Mussolini told her she could not call on the Italian monarchs (TIME, April 7). Primo di Rivera, following the leader, told her she could not call on the Spanish. The French Senate voted money for entertaining her this Summer, but so great was the protest it became doubtful whether the moneys would be so used. Only Brussels beamed with a kindly light. The Belgian Foreign Office extended an official invitation to Queen Marie and her husband, Ferdinand...
...Union Franchise for Woman Suffrage is piqued because Messieurs les Senateurs et Deputés have ignored the suffrage question. These active ladies have decided to send all of the recalcitrant males in le Parlement a letter, pointing out that Belgian women vote, that Primo de Rivera has decreed the vote for the senoritas of Castille and Aragon, and that Benito Mussolini has promised that the donnas of Italy may vote sometime soon...
...presence of King Alfonso and Dictator Primo Rivera, both of whom were visibly affected, the famed historical home of the Royal Engineers' Academy at Guadalajara, near Madrid, was accidentally destroyed by fire...
King Alfonso and Primo are good friends. The King said that he had saved the country from a civil war by appointing Primo Dictator of Spain. Primo said he was teaching Spain how to govern herself properly. Yet, rumor follows rumor, as one drop of rain follows another, that all is not well in Spain...