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...described was Communist "General Gomez," commander of the Loyalist XIII Brigade, later chief of staff of all the International Brigades. He was really Hans Zaisser, born in 1893 in the Ruhr. In World War I, Zaisser fought as a German noncom. Later he joined the Red military organization (M-Apparat), was a leader in the 1923 abortive uprisings in the Rhineland. When Hitler came in, he fled to Soviet Russia...
...Bowie cited such modern instances as the Vatican's Lateran Treaty with Mussolini (which named Roman Catholicism "sole religion of the State"); the recent reports by New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Homer Bigart of discrimination against Protestants in Spain (TIME, March 7); the 1885 encyclical of Pope Leo XIII stating that "it is not lawful for the State ... to hold in equal favor different kinds of religion"; and an article in the Jesuit publication La Civiltà Cattolica (TIME, June 28, 1948) which stated: "The Roman Catholic Church, convinced, through its divine prerogatives, of being the only true church...
Married. Don Jaime, 41, Duke of Segovia, second son and onetime heir apparent of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain (deposed 1931, died in exile 1941), who renounced his claim to the throne in 1933; and Charlotte Tiedemann, German opera singer; in Innsbruck, Austria. Born a deaf mute into a family racked by the "Bourbon curse" of hemophilia, Don Jaime learned to talk intelligibly in three languages, remains healthy...
...Second Spanish Republic lasted from April 1931 (abdication of King Alfonso XIII), until March 28, 1939 (surrender of Madrid to General Franco...
Died. Fernando de los Rios Urruti, 69, Socialist cabinet member and a founder of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-39); after long illness; in Manhattan. Following the bloodless overthrow of King Alfonso XIII (April 1931), De los Rios, as Minister of Justice, started a reform program (to break up the aristocracy's large land holdings) and tried unsuccessfully to separate church and state. As Ambassador to the U.S. (1936-39), he fought for U.S. aid to Republican Spain, went into exile when Franco won the Civil...