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...Republican President of Spain up to less than a year ago and today earns his living as a journalist in France, has now contributed to the Swiss Journal de Geneve his historic recollections of how things went in Madrid under the premiership of Manuel Azana who today is the Leftist Government's President of Spain...
Amplifying this statement, he pointed out the possible grave international consequences of a change in political alignment at this time, and intimated that a good deal depended on the Leftist party's ability to maintain confidence in the franc...
...LONSDALE!", the loud Peer boasted: "I shall be glad to give any details I can of my encounter with 'Jim' Sullivan. ... I knocked him out in just under six rounds. I had a broken hand when I did it. . ... It was kept a most extraordinary secret." Leftist voters of Lille elected to fill the French Chamber seat of Roger Salengro, Minister of Interior who killed himself after the Rightist press hounded him as a War deserter, his hitherto obscure brother Henri, a small-town politician. Claiming she had refrained from remarrying in 1907 on the promise...
...weeks ago correspondents saw it being loaded on a truck for shipment to the coast, packed in a crate that cost the Leftist Government 7,000 pesetas. ¶ Bombed and destroyed by Rebel planes was the Duke of Alba's gigantic Liria Palace, but it had already been seized as a museum, its paintings shipped to the coast. In Valencia last week paintings of the Duke of Alba, which the general public has never had a chance to see, were put on public exhibition...
...Langdon-Davies' political reporting presents a conventional Leftist picture, his casual digressions on Spanish temperament, Spanish intellectuals, anarchists, dancing, Barcelona slums, are fresh and vivid. Best is his account of a visit, before the revolution, to Barcelona's vice-ridden Fifth District. Although he had "read about everything in Havelock Ellis and Freud," when he encountered the spectacle of perversities for sale he found his imagination could not grasp the social reality. Opposed to this grim description of "the most tragic human cantonment in Europe," are his reminiscences of a great syndicalist convention he attended in Zaragoza before...