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Traditionally, a Dictator is a strong silent man who never complains. More sensitive than most is His Excellency General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. Marques de Estella, Dictator of Spain...
...Alfonso. For years the King has been less than lukewarm to the dictatorship, continually giving awkward hints of a return to parliamentary government "as soon as conditions warrant." A month ago Madrid cafes buzzed with gossip that the King was about to demand the resignation of Dictator Primo de Rivera as Prime Minister and appoint that elegant grandee, the Duke of Alba, in his place (TIME, Dec. 2). Dictator Primo de Rivera quashed the rumor, sternly announced that the present dictatorship would continue "indefinitely." King Alfonso was not amused. Fortnight ago when the Prime Minister presented his Cabinet...
...French note contained a brief constructive suggestion for a Mediterranean naval accord between France, Britain, Italy and Spain?a country not invited to the London parley. Since October, Spain has waited hopefully for an invitation. Spurred by the French note, she last week virtually demanded admission, Dictator Primo de Rivera citing "Spain's duty to intervene . . . because of her geography and history...
...compromising the Captain General, they sufficiently imply his support of the revolution, and the subsequent seemingly nonsensical allusion to a house of ill-fame may be considered a Spanish masterpiece. It is another way of saying: "I will not be taken for a lecherous old swine like Primo de Rivera." For any Spaniard would recognize the allusion to an occasion when the Chief of Police of Madrid personally conducted a raid on a celebrated bawdy house, thundered on the door, and then slunk away as the proprietor whispered through the chink, "I can't let you in, because Primo...
...nothing to do with honesty- a fact which often causes painful misunderstanding. Last week the millions of Spanish-blooded folk who live outside of Spain were thrilled to the marrow by a lengthy and ornate oration, the text of which had been smuggled past Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera's censors and frontier guards at risk of life and limb. These smuggled words are the very avatar of Spanish honor. They are the stenographic minutes of the successful but mercilessly suppressed plea which Don José Sanchez Guerra, four times Prime Minister of Spain, made to a court martial...