SPAIN: '29 to the Devil!

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.

"The year 1929 has been a disastrous one," said he last week. "Let it go to the devil! I hope 1930 will be easier and enable me to retire and rest in peace."

In Madrid's official La Nacion, His Excellency indulged in further fretfulness:

"The aristocrats are objecting [to the Dictatorship]. . . . The Conservatives are opposed. . . . Those closest to...

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