Word: rivera
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Editor Balmer was sitting like a plump joss last week on the concluding parts of the Alfonso-Alexander conversations, but before reporters he dangled tempting bait. Concluding instalments would take up Alfonso's version of the cause of the de Rivera dictatorship, his own financial situation and the reasons for his decision not to live in England...
Defense seemed hopeless. "Alfonso de Bourbon y Habsburg Lorraine is guilty of high treason," a Parliamentary Committee had already reported. "He is guilty of heading a military rebellion [the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship]. . . . He is guilty of lese majeste against the sovereignty of the Spanish people...
...defamation, argued the Count, to say that His Majesty "led" the Dictatorship. Rather it was forced upon him. Historians disagree upon this point. Last week Count de Romanones furnished historians with a telegram. Dated Sept. 14, 1923, addressed to the King and signed by General Primo de Rivera, it harangued His Most Catholic Majesty in threatening terms. Count de Romanones argued that this telegram "intimidated" Alfonso XIII into accepting the Dictatorship...
...obtain all the usual dictatorial power (previously held by such men as King Alfonso and Primo de Rivera), President Azana circulated rumors among the Deputies that a plot had been discovered by his Government "to end the Spanish Republic tomorrow morning." On the Assembly platform, however, the President's jaw worked thus...
...find" ten years ago, Diego Rivera now enjoys the honors which the world only occasionally is pleased to heap upon a living genius. Officially the trumpets were sounded in his praise two years ago when the Fine Arts Medal of the American Institute of Architects was given him for his work in Mexico City's National Preparatory School and Ministry of Education (TIME, May 26, 1929). A huge, roly-poly man, he sometimes works 16 hours a day. Once he exhausted himself, fell off his scaffold, split his head...