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...Cortes (Parliament) has not sat since 1923 because Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera has prevented King Alfonso XIII from performing his Constitutional duty to convene the Cortes...
When is another Cortes to assemble? Dictator Primo de Rivera virtually declared "Never!" in answer to this question last week, by announcing that next September there will be convened a new National Assmebly (not the Cortes) for the purpose of drafting and proclaiming a new Spanish Constitution...
Miguel Primo de Rivera, Marquis de Estella, Premier of Spain, with "a figure like a Bartlett pear," with a fondness for ladies: "In demanding a rigid press censorship for Spain, I last week remarked: 'I have a number of vices and weaknesses which I never attempted to hide, but wine is not one of them.' Also, the news came out last week that King Alfonso will be unable to carry out the Holy Week custom of pardoning a murderer, for the simple reason that there is no one in Spain awaiting execution. It is well known that...
Like an ivory chessman smashed by a petulant master the career of a young Spanish politician snapped in two last week, when Dictator General Primo de Rivera demanded his resignation and received it in a loosely oval hand...
Instead of appointing a new Foreign Minister, last week, Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera took this portfolio himself...