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Some 27 months ago (TIME, Sept. 29, 1923) General Primo de Rivera, robust determined, overthrew the allegedly corrupt Government of Premier Alhucemas by "a bloodless Fascist revolution," and became de facto "The Mussolini of Spain" and de jure President of "The National Directorate,"* an office which King Alfonso hastily created...
...announced that the new Directorate intended to remain in power only long enough to purge Spain of her corrupt internal administration and to restore the prestige of her armies in Morocco. Last week it began to look as if this promise were being kept rather well by Dictator de Rivera. He announced that he bas built up a political party, the Patriotic Union, and declared that he will function henceforth as Premier of the following half-civil, half-military Cabinet...
General Primo de Rivera Premier...
Ceremonies following the installation of Mulai-el-Hassan as Caliph of Spanish Morocco (TIME, Nov. 16) continued last week at Tetuan. General Miguel Primo de Rivera, head of the Spanish Military Directorate conferred upon the new Caliph the Spanish Order of the Grand Collar of Carlos III; and the Grand Vizier read a speech on behalf of the 16-year-old Mulai-el-Hassan, which terminated with a prayer for the return of peace to Morocco...
...Alexander Pollock Moore, U. S. Ambassador to Spain, who recently arrived at Tetuan, was entertained by General Miguel Primo de Rivera at a banquet given in his honor. Present were the Grand Vizier and the chief resident Spanish officers and officials. General de Rivera commented upon the fact that he had just turned over the Spanish High Command in Morocco to General Sanjurjo; later he issued a printed address to the troops in which he described their new leader as "my companion in arms for 33 years," and extolled his virtues...