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Last week "The Father of the Second Spanish Republic," eloquent, softhearted President Niceto Alcalà Zamora y Torres, 58, was brazenly voted out of office, 238-to-5, by the Spanish Cortes (Parliament...
...ranked high among samples of the ingratitude of republics. It had been Zamora in 1931 who demanded King Alfonso XIII's abdication and proclaimed the Republic. Since then, during Spain's wild swings from Left to Right to Left in last February's general elections, President Zamora, a pious Catholic, has stayed in the unlovable middle. So outraged was he by his suspicion that his old friend Manuel Azaña, now Premier, had taken part in the Left parties' October 1934 revolt that he refused to speak to Azaña. On the other hand...
...burned some 17 churches, eleven convents, 33 Rightist political clubs, ten newspaper plants and 22 miscellaneous buildings. Killed: 51. Wounded: 194. In a fog of censorship and an official "state of alarm," a wild rumor spread that land-hungry peasants had overrun the estates of President Niceto Alcalá Zamora and his 78-year-old spinster aunt...
...seats, and the "Right" 220, there was no assurance that a vote of confidence could be won by the bilious Left Republican who suddenly found himself again Premier, sickly-green-complexioned Don Manuel Azaña. The President of the Republic, uneasy old Don Niceto Alcála Zamora, was not in the least sure that the unexpected ballot victory of the Left might not enflame the Right's scheming would-be Dictator, Don Jose Maria Gil Robles, to attempt a coup d'etat...
...alarm last September when perennial Premier Alejandro Lerroux resigned once more and passed the Government to his fellow Radical (actually Conservative) Joaquin Chapaprieta. But all Spain sat up last week when Monarchist Deputies screamed in the Cortes that Lerroux's resignation had come immediately after President Niceto Alcala Zamora received a letter from a Mexican gambler and promoter named Daniel Straus who unfolded a strange and scandalous story of 2,000,000 pesetas worth of bribes to bigwigs of Lerroux's party...