SPAIN: Socialist Blood

As ''The Day of the Race," sometimes known as Columbus Day,was celebrated last week in the world's 19 Spanish-speaking nations, Mother Spain concluded a sharp lesson to its 18 onetime daughters in how to suppress a revolution.

Suppressor was Premier Alejandro Lerroux, sole old-style Republican in Spain's Rightist Cabinet of Catholics. Monarchists and Fascists. Like Britain's Ramsay MacDonald, he is famed for his old wars on tyranny, for his soft and gentlemanly heart and. to the mind of Labor, for his betrayal of democracy. He was backed last week solidly by the...

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