SPAIN: Strategy

In Madrid, the Marquis de Estella, better known as General Primo de Rivera, President of the Spanish Military Directory, sat at his desk. A large number of people visited him, came away with faces more anxiously clouded than they were when to him they went. Not a word that could be relied upon reached the public which, because of the number of his visitors, was confirmed in its conviction that SeƱor de Rivera was not merely twiddling his thumbs. Primo, "robust, determined, democratic by nature, a man slightly above medium height, with a...

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