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Whether the excommunication included only the Cabinet and the Deputies who voted the church laws or embraced the entire Government from President Zamora down to the humblest customs inspector, was not stated. Hardest hit was Alcala Zamora. A devout Catholic, he dearly loves the solace of the Mass. When Madrid hotheads set fire to Jesuit churches two years ago, plump Senora Alcala Zamora distinguished herself by driving in an open carriage to each of the burned buildings, sitting before the door loudly saying her beads...
Long argued, bitterly fought by Spanish conservatives. Spain's new Law of Re- ligious Congregations, passed three weeks ago (TIME, May 29), still lay last week on the desk of tousle-haired President Niceto Alcala Zamora ready for signature. Long as he could President Alcala Zamora postponed the deed, sent messages to the Cortes protesting the section forbidding primary and secondary education by monks or nuns, insisting on the right to use the mediating power that is his under the Constitution. An open break threatened between Zamora's adherents and the Socialist followers of bag-jowled Premier Manuel...
...last possible moment, still gesticulating. Alcala Zamora signed the church law. Of all the governments that used to acknowledge official allegiance to Rome, only Hungary is left...
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...
...meeting had 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...