Word: alejandro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chang's Move. In Geneva grandfatherly Spanish Foreign Minister Alejandro Lerroux, presiding over the League of Nations Council, devoted ten minutes to hear statements by the Japanese and Chinese delegates, expressed satisfaction that Japan would appease the situation. Knowing that his troops were no match for the Japanese, smart Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang did the best thing he could have clone to win world support. He ordered his Manchurian troops to offer no resistance to the Japanese, to pile their arms in depots. From a hospital bed in Peiping where he has been undergoing treatment, he issued a statement...
...that showed Royalist strength were medieval Navarre, whose sympathies are not for Alfonso but his 60-year-old cousin, the Carlist Pretender Don Jaime; and Guadelajara, pocket borough of wrinkled canny Count de Romanones who used to dandle Alfonso XIII on his knee. Enthusiasti- cally returned was Foreign Minister Alejandro Lerroux, whose power in the Government has been growing daily, who seemed certain to be Premier when a permanent Cabinet is chosen in July...
Also in the Cabinet, but not recently in jail, were Minister of State Alejandro Lerroux (who will hold down Spain's seat on the council of the League of Nations), Minister of War Manuel Azana and Minister of Finance Indalecio Prieto...
Panama. President Ricardo Alfaro sighed with relief when a timely police raid netted 40 rifles and a case of ammunition in the home of Chief of Police Alejandro Ramos of Los Santos Province, bud-nipping a revolution in Los Santos and Veragua Provinces...
Colombia: Declared a legal holiday, held open-air masses, military reviews. Villagers of San Pedro Alejandro eagerly awaited a golden wreath being flown from New York by Pan American Airways. In the farmhouse where Bolivar died, a golden crown was unveiled in the death chamber by President Olaya Herrera...