No Change in Spain The resignation and return of Sefior
Azafia is a triumph for the Prime Minister, who is thus revealed as the indis- pensable man in Spain, and something of a set-back to President Zamora, who rather abruptly decided on a reconstruction of the Cabinet but found no alternative, after various attempts, but to send for the retiring Prime Minister once more. The general result of the return of a Government which was dispensed with because of its leftward tendency will be'rather to accentuate the left- ward- trend. But Senor Azaiia in his eighteen months of office has displayed considerable statesmanship and no extreme measures need be looked for. The position of the' Government, with a monarchist movement to hold in check on the one hand and an anarchist movement on the other, and with the new law for the regulation of the religious orders to administer, will for some time be difficult. The influence exerted in it by Socialists is disliked by business men, and the Church is naturally hostile to the new laws which secularize the schools. But the Azafia coalition is better qualified than any other probable combination to prosecute the defence of the republic.
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