Spanish hearts have had room for nothing but political hatred since the overwhelming victory of the Left parties in the general elections last month (TIME, Feb. 24). Last week, after a month of passionate and random violence, the mobs had burned some 17 churches, eleven convents, 33 Rightist political clubs, ten newspaper plants and 22 miscellaneous buildings. Killed: 51. Wounded: 194. In a fog of censorship and an official "state of alarm," a wild rumor spread that land-hungry peasants had overrun the estates of President Niceto Alcalá Zamora and his 78-year-old spinster...
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