Word: silvela
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...National Directorate, the first act of the Dictators Avas to suspend the Constitution and dissolve the Cortes (Spanish Parliament). Red chiefs were arrested and imprisoned, except in cases where they had succeeded in crossing the frontier of France or Portugal. All the civil governors were dismissed. Don Luis Silvela, Spanish High Commissioner for Morocco, was replaced by General Aizpuru Mondejas, who was endowed with " full powers to crush Abdel Krim and retrieve the honor of the Spanish Army." Meanwhile Spain is to be governed by an oligarchy of virtual despots until such a time as "another better Cortes which will...
...Luis Silvela, Spanish High Commissioner in Morocco, arrived in Madrid and was received with mixed feelings...
...Riffians without great sacrifices in men and materiel. The implication is that the game is not worth the candle and that the only thing to do is to give up the Spanish Zone in Morocco or govern peaceably. At all events Foreign Minister Senor Santiago Alba greeted Don Luis Silvela with great warmth, but the Minister of War's greeting was conspicuous by its lack of good feeling...
...Luis Silvela was appointed Spanish High Commissioner in Morocco on February 14, 1923, in succession to General Damaso Berenguer, retired. General Berenguer was charged by public sentiment with negligence in connection with the Spanish defeat of 1921. Recently he caused a pleasant surprise by waiving his immunity to trial by demanding to be tried before the Supreme Court of War and Marine...
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