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Since March, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, wild-eyed Fascist son of Spain's former dictator, has languished in Madrid's new model prison charged with inciting insurrection through his blueshirted followers, the Falange Espanola. Last week Blueshirt de Rivera was in court again. Detectives searching his home had found two pistols...
Fascist Primo de Rivera is a lawyer, so he defended himself, wearing the black cap and fluttering gown of a Spanish barrister. Arguments were unavailing. Judges listened patiently, then slapped a five-month additional sentence on him for his pistols...
Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera seemed stunned for a moment, then suddenly let out a roar like a wounded bull. He took his cap and flung it straight over the head of the presiding judge at the figure of Justice on the wall, tore off his gown and stamped on it. "Bastards!" he screamed, "Bastards! Up Spain! There is no more justice in this country...
...plaster statuet of Justice went sail ing through the air, crashed against the wall. Like prudent woodchucks the three judges ducked, shouting orders to clear the court. All over the courtroom Fascists and police were mixing it up. Furious Primo de Rivera kicked impotently at the panels of the bench itself, swept off files of papers...
Listening to John Carroll's salty talk, looking at his brawny arms and deep-tanned, seamy face, most observers would conclude that here was a man who, if he painted at all, would do something like the Rivera murals of Industry downstairs in the Institute's main court - hard, realistic, packed with sharp detail, maplike in their bright, crowded colors (TIME. April 3, 1933). But Painter Carroll's frescoes were simple, subdued, purely decorative idealizations. One of them, called Morning, showed three gracile, rosy-fleshed women floating in a pale blue, white-clouded sky. Another, Afternoon, showed...