Out of jails all over Spain and across frontiers they poured last week. 9,000 monarchists, clericals, politicians. Some of them had been behind bars or exiled two years, when tousle-haired President Alcala Zamora finally signed Spain's bitterly argued political amnesty bill. Greatest excitement took place before the gates of Cadiz Military Prison where a cheering crowd of bullfighters, waiters and young aristocrats assembled to welcome paunchy General José Sanjurjo, sentenced to death in 1932 for his abortive attempt to stage a monarchist revolution in Andalusia.
"The news is the most welcome I...