Spain's flamboyant oversupply of politicians had by last week brought that country to the edge of political chaos. The impassive, wrinkled face of Premier Manuel Azaña, Left Republican, was grooved with woe over the treacherous rioting of his ostensible allies among Communists and Socialists. Last week this reached a new high with the burning of five Madrid churches, seven convents, four schools.
Up for election was a second President of the Second Spanish Republic to replace kindly old Niceto Alcalá ("Father of the Republic") Zamora, brutally booted out of office last month by...
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