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This effort to save five shillings ($1.25) blew up around His Majesty's Government last week a whirlwind of Labor charges that they have secretly recognized the Spanish Rightist Government. Alba, one of the very bluest-blooded grandees of Spain and one of the wealthiest under King Alfonso XIII, announced in regard to the affair: "It was a plot of the Reds, that...
...early days of the civil war, Spanish proletarians seized the Madrid palace and handsome park of Alba, part of which was damaged by a Rightist incendiary bomb. Today Alba's most valuable art treasures, such as Goya's portrait of a former Duchess of Alba and canvases by Rubens, Murillo, etc., are hung temporarily in the proletarian museum at Valencia. In Madrid, boys & girls in the peaked caps of the People's Army drill with rifles in Alba's park. A militiaman who insists on always wearing his peaked cap, even indoors, regularly uses Alba...
...carrying two large military maps. He lunched and conferred, it came out last week, with this curious assortment of Right and Centre French politicians : Georges Bonnet, until recently Finance Minister and before that Ambassador at Washington; Paul Reynaud, also a former Finance Minister and frequently mentioned as a future Rightist Premier; Georges Mandel, the famed "Tiger Cub" disciple of the late Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau; and Jean Ybarnegaray, a lieutenant of Fascist Colonel Count Frangois de La Rocque...
...Chamber of Deputies the Popular Front majority showed fight, provoked pandemonium and suspension of the session by invalidating the recent election of Rightist Jean Goy. Screamed angry Rightists, "There is no more Chamber!", but soon it was sitting again...
...worst shape of all, however, was the respectable 54-year-old Catholic Nationalist Echo de Paris. Last week it was finally rescued by and merged into veteran Leon Bailby's struggling Rightist Le Jour. Le Jour, now Le Jour-L'Echo de Paris, lost, however, one of Echo's biggest assets: Anglophile André Géraud, better known as Pertinax, one of the best connected of the many well-connected political writers in France. His political dispatches which sparkle like champagne at a diplomat's table have long appeared in the London Telegraph...