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Church & State. In the Cortes last week final approval was given the bill presented by President Alcala Zamora in October to seize "temples of all classes, episcopal palaces, rectories, seminaries and other buildings of the Catholic cult . . . also all ornaments, pictures and other such objects in them." Such property is valued roughly at $500,000,000. As in France it is expected that these treasures will not be sold but turned back to the clergy as wardens for the state...
...ended without a decision because Radical Socialist members had threatened to resign if the sentence were commuted. General Sanjurjo ordered a vermouth as the cabinet went into a third session. Three hours before sundown Premier Azana announced to the Cortes that the cabinet had asked President Niceto Alcala Zamora to commute the sentence to life imprisonment, that the President had signed the papers. Rightist deputies cheered, those of the Left hissed. There were half a dozen fist fights. Big-jowled General Sanjurjo grinned, ordered another vermouth...
Spain's mid-August heat is dry, oppressive. Business, traffic and government move slowly. Public officials leave Madrid for a rest, as did President Niceto Alcala Zamora last week. But heat meant nothing to a veteran of Moroccan campaigns, swart General Jose Sanjurjo,* good friend of the late Dictator Primo De Rivera and of exiled King Alfonso, whom he faintly, fatly resembles. "Just the time for a coup d'état," he chuckled to himself as he sped south from Madrid one torrid night. Next day Sevillanos on their way to lunch heard the clatter of hoofs...
...Debate and Nacion were suspended. Casualties of the revolt: 1,000 arrested, 90 wounded, ten killed, including one Nicanor Puerto who committed suicide. The Government promised General Sanjurjo would not be executed "unless the law left no alternative." Disloyal Civil Guards were stripped of their epaulets. President Alcala Zamora distributed 500,000 pesetas in rewards to the republic's heroes. In Konigswart, Czechoslovakia, onetime King Alfonso denied he had any hand in the revolt, expressed grief over the bloodshed. His third son, Prince Juan Carlos, who was reported to have been the royalists' choice for King...
...municipal election six Royalists recently won offices, scored the first victory for their party since the founding of the Republic. Cockily last week President Alcala Zamora, who has been surrounding himself with more & more pomp until his entourage is almost regal, announced: "I will spend most of the summer at La Granja palace," famed for its luxurious gardens, often called the Spanish Versailles. Only 15 months ago Senor Alcala Zamora was in jail...