1 FEBRUARY 1930, Page 1

The End of the Spanish Dictatorship ;. • ' On

Tuesday, the Prime Minister of Spain, General Primo de Rivera, resigned, together with his Cabinet whiCh had already- lost its Finance Minister, Senor Calvo Sotelo, whose portfolio had -been taken over a week before by the Minister' Of National Economy. The King asked General Berenguer, the Chief of his Military Household, to form a new Cabinet. So' passes' the most likeable of Europe's dictators, worn out by six years of non-co-Operation. Human nature hispanica has been too much • for him, despite his praiseworthy attempts to find a cure for Spain's deep-rooted political malady and, above all, to safeguard the . Spanish Monarchy through his draft Constitution, though this was to be submitted • to the National Assembly. It was a foregone„ conclusifin thatithe end Of. the Dictatorship, when it did con* would be bimight about by-the' Army. ” ' -