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...ever adopted by a modern nation. It contains 19 chapters and over 125 articles. Serviceably bound in red, yellow & purple covers, the 400,000 volumes hurtled down last week somewhat dangerously, but there were no serious casualties. Into the Royal Palace, his official residence for the time being, went Senor Alcala Zamora, preceded by four mace-bearers. In Fontainebleau, ex-King Alfonso XIII spent the day playing golf, turned in a poor card...
...Santiago last week Senor Montero studiously ignored the Cosach crisis, reorganized his Cabinet, talked of doing something to aid the 15% of Chilean workers who are now unemployed...
Later the National Assembly, again at Senor Azana's bidding, swept away the whole system of Catholic primary education. Article 46 of the new Constitution, now being built by the Assembly article by article, day after day, was adopted with cheers. It provides that "Primary education shall be free, public and non-religious," and pledges the Government to establish lay schools of higher learning...
With catcalls filling the National Assembly, with Deputies punching & pulling each other's noses, Foreign Minister Alejandro Lerroux cancelled an appointment to go to Geneva. He was to have presided over the League Council while it wrestled with China & Japan (see p. 20). Instead Senor Lerroux leaped with President Alcala Zamora to the aid of Mother Church. Also for Mother Church battled at first War Minister Manuel Azana-but not for long...
...Shrewd Senor Azana, when appointed War Minister (TIME, May 4) decided at once that 22,219 commissioned officers (149 of them Generals) were too many for Spain, slashed the number to 7,000. "Our Army today," he has said with modest pride, "is compact!" Last week amid National Assembly bedlam about Mother Church, shrewd War Minister Azana suddenly deserted pious President Alcala Zamora, made a fiery anticlerical speech which delighted the Socialists (largest Spanish party). That speech a few hours later made War Minister Azana the Provisional President and Premier of Spain. But first