28 FEBRUARY 1931, Page 3

Spain The new Spanish Government is trying to put itself

right with public opinion, not only by consenting to such municipal and provincial elections as by Constitutional custom precede a General Election, but by agreeing that the new Cortes shall have a "constituent character "- in other words, shall be allowed to consider amend- ments to the Constitution. If the King will be contented with the position of a limited Constitutional Monarch all may yet be well. There is no doubt that the Spanish people were impressed by his self-possession, his friend- liness and his political address in the recent crisis, and that at the moment there is some reaction in favour of the Monarchy. No reaction was needed, of course, to make the King popular as a personality.

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