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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...
...Informaciones, El 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...
...first birthday of Spain's Republic, the anniversary of the day Alfonso XIII fled from his country. Airplanes dropped 50,000 little red, yellow and purple parachutes; there were gala football matches and bullfights. Pink with pleasure, tousle-haired President Niceto Alcala Zamora reviewed 10,000 troops in the Castellana avenue, presided over a lunch to the diplomatic corps. He was too excited to remember to go to a broadcasting studio in time to speak to the Americas. Madrid crowds, never anxious to go to bed, danced in the Puerta del Sol all night. The keynote speech was made...
...Republic has resolved the important problems it found pending, it is going to occupy itself principally with invigorating the nation's economic life, using every resource to favor the circulation of capital and procure a renaissance of public riches." Next day many a Madrid editor accused President Alcala Zamora of "living like a king" and "wasting public moneys." Mrs. Alcala Zamora created a diversion by announcing she had picked up a "homeless waif," restored the waif publicly to its parents...