Word: centriste
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Interpreting the revolt as a vote of noconfidence. Premier Casares Quiroga resigned. President Azaña chose a fellow-member of the Left Centre, President of the Cortes Diego Martinez-Barrio, who in turn resigned to make way for another Left Centrist José Giralt Pereira. distinguished scientist. Madrid University's Chancellor and old friend...
...President is to be dismissed in a few minutes." The Catholic and monarchist Right, which had lost power by Zamora's dissolution of the last Cortes, abstained from the voting, knowing that any President put in by the Left could be no better than Zamora. Only five Centrist deputies voted for "The Father of the Second Spanish Republic...
...dictatorship and nationalization of land & banks. The Right parties, counter-united under Catholic Leader Jose Maria Gil Robles, offered "Anti-Revolution," meaning, to the women, suppression of divorce; to the churchmen, support of the Catholic Church in Spain; to the Monarchists, the Monarchy. Finally Premier Manuel Portela Valladares' Centrist Government offered "Neutrality," qualified by political alliance with the Right. In the campaign the Government reserved the radio entirely for itself. With only eight dead, 32 wounded, the election was called "the most peaceful in years." Results: At week's beginning, the Left seemed to have raised its Cortes...
...became ''men without a party." Most of them were expected to resign their seats. The decree of the Catholic Centre executives dissolving the party was piteously abject. They begged that Catholic dignitaries be "protected from slander" in the Nazi Press and that physical property belonging to Catholic Centrist Party headquarters be not confiscated. "A political revolution." they declared, "has placed German state life on a completely new basis which leaves no room for party activity. The German Centre Party, therefore, dissolves itself in agreement with Chancellor Hitler-the dissolution to take effect immediately...
...Spiritually German Catholics breathed easier. Politically they were almost forced last week to give up the ghost. Utmost pressure was put on the Catholic Center Party to dissolve. Into their midst "The Doctor" stuck his sharp propaganda harpoon. "If I may be permitted," he sneered, "to give the Centrist party a piece of gratuitous advice it is this: CLOSE YOUR SHOP. There are no more customers coming your way! If we remove the Centrist party from the realm of politics we shall have done the Catholic Church a good service." Thus incited, Nazi police raided in Berlin six Catholic organizations...