¶Titles of Spanish nobility were nullified and swept away last week by the Provisional Government. But their decree, by no means ruthless, permits use of former actual titles as “courtesy titles” by Spain’s:
<BR>97 Grandees</BR> 1,310 Marquises</BR> 900 Counts</BR> 145 Viscounts</BR> 148 Barons</BR>
¶ To increase confidence in the sunk but slowly rising Spanish peseta† Provisional President Alcala Zamora declared: “I have not a large fortune, but what I have I have now transferred from France to Spain, from francs into pesetas.”
¶ The Provisional Government set July 14 as the day on which a Constituent Assembly will meet in Madrid to draft a new Constitution, set up a Constitutional Government. Elections will be held on June 28 throughout Spain. Whichever party wins more votes than any other one party will receive 80% of all seats in the Constitutional Assembly, the other 20% of seats being distributed proportionally among all other parties.
¶ Export of certain foodstuffs (tomatoes, rice, meat, etc.) from Spain was forbidden by decree. Reason: shrewd foreigners have been buying pesetas dirt cheap, using them to buy Spanish food dirt cheaper, thus depleting Spain of things to eat at an alarming rate.
†Par: 19.3¢ per peseta. After sinking to 7.9¢ it was up last week to 9.6¢.
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