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...Dictator. "I had to do this for Spain. The country has been ruined by politicians, and we hope to put it back in the grand place Spain occupied in the past. I took a desperate chance, but life and country were at stake." These were the words of Marquis de Estella, Lieutenant General Bon Miguel Primo Rivera, Captain General f of Catalonia, Spanish Mussolini...
...victory over the Moors is said to have averted a crisis in political affairs in Spain. The war has never been popular with the proletariat, but the honor of the Army was at stake. There was also an international, aspect of the war. Spain undertook definite obligations when the Algeciras Conference (1906) placed the zone under her rule, and she has never fulfilled them. Besides, Spain is confronted with an orderly rule in French Morocco and complaints from the Italians in Tripolitania, who declare that Spain's inability to quell the Riffians reacts with bad effect...
Accordingly A. R. Gates of Chicago, co-donor of the trophy for the world's championship toque tournament, has suggested a balkline game. He would draw a twelve-inch circle around each arch and stake within which no ball is eligible to advancement for the point. Roque players throughout the country are enormously excited over the suggested innovation. Apparently roque, as the present generation has known and loved it, must shuffle into discard...
...over the question of minorities. He ironically suggested that Turkey should be the protector of racial minorities in the U. S. Said the wily Ismet: "The Turkish newspapers have the most ferocious accounts of lynchings of Negroes in the United States almost every week. You burn them at the stake. We stopped burning people two or three hundred years...
...Havers who led Hagen, Smith, Kirkwood by the nose at Troon last June for the British open golf championship, has proved himself no flash in the pan. Shortly after, at Gleneagles, he led another brilliant field. Last week, at St. Albans, Verulam, Havers won the ?450 stake with 75-67-142. The previous course record, held by Braid...