News of the Week
Spain SENOR ZAMORA'S provisional Republican Govern. went continues to settle itself in the saddle. Ills Majesty's Ambassador in Madrid has conveyed to it the recognition of the British Empire. The Spanish Royal Family remain united in France except for the King's brief visit to London this week. Sixty years ago, when Spain thought to find relief in Republicanism, two years' experience were enough for her. But since then the great cities have grown and their influence has grown in greater proportion. The present revolution has been an urban one, but if the rural areas are Monarchist, as is said, they are strangely apathetic. Their struggle to wring a livelihood from the soil is a hard one and engrosses their minds and bodies : their illiteracy leaves them largely impervious to the wheedling or incitements of the Press on either side. Willingly of unwillingly they will bow the neck to urban government more silently and with less reproach than does even the British agriculturist.
