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...Latin oration about Democracy being at the crossroads in Madrid was completely stultified by Orator Alvarez del Vayo himself when he announced that last week the Madrid Cabinet was not going to ask any action of the League Assembly. "The era of national wars is fast disappearing!" cried the Spaniard in his best passage. "Just as in the 16th Century in Europe men took sides and fought in the name of two religious ideals, Catholicism and Protestantism, so today, it would appear, men are divided by two political ideals, democracy and oppression. . . . The blood-stained soil of Spain is already...
...shall respect all social laws and promulgate others that will promote social progress and bring the full benefits of civilization within the reach of every Spaniard. I intend to regain the prestige of Spain as a nation. I think that a military dictatorship will mean the co-operation of all sections of national life. We shall entrust efficient technical men with the administration, not politicians. My reorganization of the State will be based on a corporate system resembling Italy and Germany, preserving, however, traditional Spanish characteristics. My agreement with General Mola and the other leaders of the Revolution provided that...
...minutes radio listeners on the Mutual Broadcasting chain heard nothing but ad-libbing by an anxious announcer. Conductor Iturbi, it became apparent, balked at starting Impressions of Buenos Aires by José André. To Cleveland's Conductor Rudolph Ringwall, who asked what was the matter, the stocky Spaniard snapped: ''Piano!" Ringwall, who is not psychic, finally gathered that Iturbi wanted a pianist to help with the Impressions. While the Clevelander was off hunting one, Iturbi informed his orchestra: "I've just sent a telegram to New York asking to be released from this series. Understand...
Despite the fact that at rehearsals Conductor Iturbi had given everyone a clear impression that he did not consider a pianist essential, the swart Spaniard stormed: "Did I not give the librarian the score the day before? Did [it] not say Impressions of Buenos Aires requires a pianist? And then, when I am about to commence, there is no pianist! Without a pianist I do not play!" Iturbi on frankfurters: "Hot dogs! The audience eating hot dogs while we play the second symphony of Jean Sibelius! People scraping their feet on the floor. Like thees : Scrape ! scrape ! Madre de Dios...
...With his extremely rugged individualism, Count Romanones snorted further that of course the Monarchy still would be in power if it had made judicious concessions to the proletariat a little sooner, and that of course Spain's Government has no alternative except to fight the Whites. "As a Spaniard," snapped the Count, "I suffer to see all this misfortune befall my country...