The Spanish Dictator General Primo de Rivera has again disappointed
the prophets. It was supposed that the dissatisfaction mani- fested in the acquittal of Senor Sanchez Guerra would either burst into a flame of revolt against the Dictator or provoke still sterner and more " dictatorial " repres- sions. Instead of which his Army opponents have been once more pardoned, and the Dictator took the oppor- tunity on the fourth anniversary of the change-over from Military Directory to Civil and Economic Dictator- ship to announce that henceforth the Press Censorship will be removed from the messages of foreign corre- spondents. The fate of the new draft Constitution is still obscure, but, from all accounts, the Dictator is determined somehow to forge a link between the present and the future, and then gracefully to retire.
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