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Attacking the character of Blasco Ibaņez, the Spanish Ambassador told how the novelist had started a Republican newspaper at Valencia; how it had proved a failure; how, to save himself from bankruptcy, he had turned the newspaper over to his employes without informing them of the true state of affairs; how, after the enterprise had been put on its feet, Blasco Ibaņez had disavowed his gift, reclaimed ownership...
...Blasco Ibaņez, none the poorer, absconded from Buenos Aires, and now no more dares show his face there than in Mexico. In both places, far from 'founding schools and colleges,' he has left outstand ing a long and painful score...
Another charge made on behalf of Seņor Blasco Ibaņez was that "with the exception of a few petty professors from the grammar schools, all the Ministerial posts are filled by generals." To this assertion the Ambassador countered by giving a complete list of the present Cabinet with the origin and profession of each member. Snappishly he concluded: "Total, nine Ministers, of whom three are generals [Primo de Rivera, Duke of Tetuan, Martinez Anido], and no one of them is a professor from the grammar schools...
Then, finally, he denied that Spain had placed a general ban on the books of Blasco Ibaņez and had denied his authorship of Mare Nostrum. With a seeming pat on the back and a left hook to the jaw, the Ambassador concluded...
...platform before it the Bishop celebrated mass. Then a match crackled, the pyre towered into flame. For an hour, untiring, zealous, the Bishop cast upon it books adjudged heretical. The first victim was a treatise by erudite philosopher Unamuno, the last a novel by author-poet Blasco Ibañez. Erring news gatherers chronicled this event as an "auto-da-fé"-an extinct form of inquisitional ceremony† of which the last orthodox examples occurred in the reign of Charles...