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During the week despatches indicated an exceedingly grave situation in Spain. The potent army juntas ("committees": military trade unions) were reported to have turned almost solidly against Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera. He was said to have responded by arresting over 400 army officers, and to have imprisoned as a hostage the daughter of insurgent General Luque who had managed to escape to France. While the Spanish censorship obscured all details, returning travelers reported pessimistically that the De Rivera Government, unable to rely upon the loyalty of the Army, has hastily armed the police with full war equipment...
...embers of a generation-old Spanish feud kindled again last week. Wicked darting flames of revolution spurted high at Barcelona, industrial tinder box of Catalonian unrest. Upon the city and all Spain Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera clapped his oldfashioned, iron extinguisher of smothering censorship. With all commercial telegraph and telephone lines completely silent throughout Spain, voluminous clouds of rumor billowed with the awesome menace of uncertain portent...
...down, the odium of his bloodthirsty governorship of Cuba (1896-97)-a direct and major cause of the Spanish-American War. His position among the older and potent hierarchy of Spanish officers was never successfully challenged until last fall (TIME, Oct. 19). At that time General (Dictator) Primo de Rivera, representative of the younger military clique, ousted him from the gold-braided citadel, which he occupied as Chief of Staff of the Spanish Army. Having plotted energetically for eight months, according to despatches, he established himself on the Island of Majorca (100 miles from Barcelona) and loosed his revenge from...
While political amateurs bore the world with analyses of Rivera, Mussolini and Pangalos, Mustapha Komal Pasha, magic enchanter who affixed the brim to the fez and drew the vell from the fact of Turkish womankind, goes unheralded and unsung, as if social traditions were not a thousand times more difficult to upset than political dicta...
Premier* General Primo de Rivera. "I think Dictator Rivera is the greatest strategist in the world. He is one of the greatest patriots I have ever known. It is he who is working out the problems hundreds of years old, and he is doing it quietly and carefully after a revolution in which not one civilian was shot or sent to prison. He feels that the military should not govern nor be the first line of defense. The army, he holds, is the last line of defense, and he is bringing the citizens to see it that...