SPAIN: Sunday Newspapers

From Madrid, Premier Primo de Rivera sent out a letter to the President of the Press Association. He expressed the wish that newspaper publishers combine in the publication of a collective newspaper in every town on Sunday. A dictator's command is best expressed as a wish.

Hitherto Spaniards have been permitted to do almost anything on Sundays except publish and purchase newspapers.

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