Word: rivera
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General Primo de Rivera, like all military geniuses, may be too opaque to see the joke, but if he does, Bagaria were better in Mars than in Spain. It is scarcely good policy to pull the lion's tail when one is locked alone with him in the cage...
King Alfonso appointed Director Primo Rivera, Marquis d'Estella, High Commissioner of the Spanish Directorate in Morocco and Commander-in- Chief of the armies there. He remained head of the Military Directorate which rules from Madrid...
...incontrovertible fact that he is a most amiable person and a sportsman of sterling qualities. As sovereign of Spain, he is undoubtedly in a most difficult position. His democratic leanings are well enough known. In principle, he agrees with the British conception of monarchy; but, unfortunately, Director Primo Rivera and his satellites are masters of the situation and, willy-nilly, the King must bow to the inevitable and accept for the time being a military dictatorship for his country which has for its avowed purpose the purging of a corrupt political system...
...Never has history shown a mon arch more deceitful and less powerful than the cruel and faithless puppet of the Spanish throne. Men are judged by their company. Alfonso's greatest friend is the only man who surpasses him in ignominy, if not in stupidity - Primo Rivera. He is a companion in the King's debauch and has dirtied the uniform in every kind of adventure and every haunt of vice...
...fuel, but there is no fire to energize the matter into power. The moral heat which loaned his war novels a high pitch of earnestness has spent itself in ashes. To convince a world iddled with the evils and inconsistencies of popular government of the already flagrant crimes of Rivera's dictatorship, will not be difficult, but, for the while at least, moral indignation is exhausted, and it is doubtful whether any crusading zeal will spring up in response to Ibanez's call...