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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1932.
THE
PRESIDENT OF SPAIN
SENOR ZAMORA.
Incidents in His Career.
The outstanding figure in Spain
at the moment is undoubtedly Don Niceto Alcala Zamora, first Presi dent of the secand Spanish Re public. Born 54 years ago in the country town of Priego, in the hilly eastern part of Andalusia, where endless olive groves after nate with whoat fields, Zamora comes of a modest family of small landowners. Ho soon showed such aptitude that at the age of seven teen he had already passed his first examination in the University of Granada.
His family made Rn effort to send him to Madrid to take his doctor's degree, and for two years. he lived in A modest boarding
tained him a Civil Service post. attached to the Council of State, at the salary of 215 pesetas monthly, (approximately £7 sterling at that time).
PARIS GAYNO LONGER.
Big Hotels and Stores Half Empty.
TOURIST SLUMP,
THE
CHINA MAIL.
THE PEERAGE IN 1931
EXTINCTIONS AND CREATIONS.
Low Rate of Mortality.
During the past year twenty-¡ of Carrick, Lord Hindlip, and Lord The remarkable scenes in prison, where crowds flocked daily to pay: Paris is "the Gay City no longer.
three peers have died, a number, Downe. their respects to the imprisoned
Seven Peerages Created, In a special message an "Even-which compares with thirty-one in
Seven peerages were created leaders of the attempted rising: ing Standard" correspondent tells 1930, and forty-two in 1929. For during the year. Four were an- the effort of Alfonso to obtain the how the decline in French prosthe last five years the annual aver-nounced with the New Year in a Government to be headed by traffle have brought to an end the age has been thirty-two, so that co-operation, of Zamora and others perity and the slump in tourist Don Jose Sanchez Guerra; and the reign of reckless expenditure which the current year's mortality has final trial and acquittal of the once made the city supreme among been below the average. prisoners were all episodes which the world's plensure capitals. brought Zamora more and more in Paris has changed almost beyond
respectively on Sir J. S. Hindley, as Honoura and were bestowed
Lord Hyndley; Sir E. H. Lamb, as
Lord Rochester; Sir W. Plender, as
Earl Russell, Under-Secretary of
Lord Plender; and Sir E. Ruther- month of March, Mr. Henry Snell, ferd ns Lord Rutherford. In the
Government, died suddenly at Mar- who had been M.P. for Woolwich
to the limelight. Skilled politician recognition to those who knew it State for India in the late Labour as he was, conservative enough to ten, five or even two years ago.
be a guarantee against any com
munistic experiments and liberal has gone, and the amusement and
All the sparkle and animation soilles in March, and was succeed-East from 1922 was created a peer enough to inspire full confidence in hotel caterers are in despair.
As the
of ministry, Mr. Snowden was created a peer, as Viscount Snow- den of Ickornshaw; peerages being also conferred on Sir Robert New- man, who had represented Exeter
Martin
ed by his, brother, the Han. Bert- as Lord Snell, on becoming Under Secretary of State for India. Laat the radical elements, he stood out I am told, for example, that a rand Russell, F.R.S. Lord Stammonth, among, the "resignation" | as the indicated leader of the re- dozen of the leading hotels in Paris fordham, who had been Private honours, consequent on the change publican cause,
are not doing between them the A Dramatic Interview. normal business of one.
Secretary to the King from 1901, Few scenea in the history of This fact is self-evident, for the died in April at St. James's Palace, house at three pesetas daily until Spain can have been so dramatic hotels are more than half empty, at the age of 81, leaving no heir. he passed his examination with
brief interview between The staffs, although reduced, are Lord Knutsford, who achieved such honours. He was then 22 years Count Romanones and Zamora in idle. Princely suites are going old. A further examination ob- the early afternoon of April 14 of begging and the prices of ordinary remarkable distinction as Treasur. in the Commons and Sir
last year, when the country
Conway, who had been member for was rooms have been drastically re- er of the London Hospital, died in Bath, with the respective titles of geething with excitement after the duced, but still they remain unoe- that institution in July, and republican triumphs in the munici cupied.
was Lord Mamhead and Lord Conway.
Face to face with
succeeded by his twin brother. As against these creation there pal elections.
The Only Guests.
Lord Stanley of Alderley, who was were three extinctions, as Lord his former political protege,
Some friends of mine, who visit Governor of Victoria during the Wittenham, Romanones pleaded for a respite, ed
Lord Stamfordham, Paris, had the for a truce of a few days.
sing war, and had rendered great ser- and Lord Bateman did not leave lar experience of being the only vices
as Chairman of the East heirs to succeed them in title.) Zamora was magnificently cate- guests in an hotel of 300 rooms. gorical. "Don alfonso must leave The quarter of Paris in which London at
Africa Joint Committee, died in Balancing creations and extinc-
the Madrid before nightfall, or we can depression atares the observer most Lord Delamere, pioneer and leader creased by four.
age of Afty-five. tions, the number of peers was in- The Earldom of not answer for his personal dramatically in the face is that in of the white settlers in Kenya, died Orferd again became extinct on mafety," he said. Yet a few hours which many later he was almost humble in tone makers and jewellers have their
fashionable dress of heart failure at Nairobi at the the death of that peer in Septem ber, but the Baronies of Walpole when, as Head of the Republican headquarters. In ordinary times,
age of sixty-one. Government, he spoke into a micro- this quarter-the Bond Street area during the
Other peers who passed away passed to a distant cousin, who phone to a Spain hanging on his of Paris-is mirthful with the gay Ellenborough,
year included Lord thus became entitled to a seat in
had who
served the Lords, so that the total num- words. "The Republic cannot laughter of the midinettes. Under the tutelage of Count
promise you felicity," he said, "but
Now the midinettes are silent of 1878-80, and the South African
throughout the Afghan Campaign ber of peers was not affected. Romanones, he entered politics, it will strive to bring back to
Among the Scottish represents- Leading dressmakers have ruth-' being returned as Deputy for La Spain respect for law and justice, lessly cut down their wage bille Registrar of the Privy Council recently elected to serve in place war; Lord Wittenham, who was tive peers the Earl of Rothes was Carolinu, in the province of Jaen, and it will inquire into responsi- and discharged girl apprentices. in 1906. His powers as an orator.bilities and carry out administra- In all countries the jewellery from 1887 to 1896; Lord Galway: of Viscount Falkland, who had Lord Glenavy, late chairman of retired, and the Earl of Lauderdale trade is perhaps the best index to the Irish Free State Senate, and was chosen in place of his late
His Arst act on obtaining a posi-, tion was to marry Dona Pura Cas tillo, the daughter of a neighbour- ing family in his native village,
he
and he recalls that the rent paid for a flat in those days was but 55 pesetas a month, In the free and easy way which is typical Spanish civil servant, Zamora was able to practise as a lawyer, in addition to carrying out
of the
his official duties.
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and a certain directness of aim intive reform."
♫ former
the delivery of attacks on various As head of the Government, his prosperity. Governments brought him intc public notice. He became a Minis ter for the first time in 1917, and held portfollos on several casions. A member of the Cabinet
unswerving faith in the new In Paris the jewellery trade is
re- gime, his nervous impatience at nearly dead. any difficulties which threatened to
of Senor Garcia Prieto in 1923 he
had some premonition of what was about to happen..
Opposition to the Regime.
ness.
Uncecupled Flats.
have bank
Four peers come
Bre
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Lord Chancellor of father. Ireland; Lord Dunleath: Lord On the EpiscopaÏ Bench, Dr. Several establishments
Savile, for many years a notable Perowne, who already had a seat) retard its consolidation, and his closed their doors, and a
figure in sport and in the social in the House as Bishop of Brad- faculty for smoothing out difficul- manager tells me that the strong ed as Sir Jesse Boot: Lord Wen-ric of Worcester in succession to world; Lord Trent, well remember- ford, was translated to the Bishop- ties stood out particularly. He rooma of the Paris banks are burst- could best be appreciated sitting at ing with the unrealisable assets of lock, one of the small band of the late Dr. Pearce.
Three of the peers who succeed- the head of the Government bench jewellers whose mortgaged stocks clerical peers; the Earl of Tanker- in the Cortes. With his head rest have been seized to meet heavy ville; the Earl of Lauderdale, aed to titles during the year But, despite his ability and his ing on one hand, his white hair overdrafts.
Scottish representative peer; the minors-Lord Savile, born in 1910, oratory. Zumora differed very little contrasting sharply with his tan-
Earl of Oxford, a great traveller Lord Walpole (successor to Lord in sum total from dozens of other ned complexion, the upper lip In the fashionable residential and sportsman, Lord Wraxall, for Orford) 1913, and Lord Wraxall, politicians. No particular achieve drawn back over prominent teeth; district of Paris every street and two periods as Col. Gibbs, Conser-1928. ment pointed to him as a future; he would listen with rigid intent- almost every building offer expen-vative Whip in the House of Com- next year-Lord Selby, February leader of Spain. It needed the
sive flats to let.
mons, and Treasurer of the House- 16, the Earl of Warwick, March 4, Dictatorship to stir him out of When the moment came for him Hundreds of new and luxurious hold; Lord Forres, who as Mr. Ar- Viscount Bridport, May 22, and himself. In constant opposition to to speak, he would rise deliberate- ly-fitted apartments in the Bois de chibald Williamson was for years Viscount Long, September 14. that regime, he was an active symty and develop his
a member of the House of Com- The result of all the changes la CERAMIC & REFRACTORY PRODUCTS argument in Boulogne are unoccupied. pathiser with the different plots slow decisive tones, mellowed by a Wealthy Frenchmen have been mons, and at one time Financial that the membership of the House which were prepared in vait. ot-1 soft Andalusian accent. Later, forced to cut down their establish- Secretary to the War Office; Lord is increased to 756, excluding tempts to bring it to an end. From gathering force and eloquence, ho menta, sell their race-horses and Listowel, Lord Bateman, the Earl minors. being a supporter of constitutional would impose the logical course on hunters, and close their villas on reform, he became convinced of the the House by sheer force of the Riviera. necessity of removing Alfonso from rhetoric. Nearly always he got I know one Frenchman of inter- the throne.
his way, but the House definitely national repute who recently dis- On April 14, 1930, while other refused to accept his view that the charged sixty servants. politicians were perplexedly won- Jesuit Order should not be dis- The great department stores are dering what attitude to adopt to solved, and he left the Cabinet, ac- so short of customers that half-a- the Berenguer Government, Zamora companied by Miguel Mauro, the dozen idle saleswomen now over- further notice. Mails will be despatched generally via Suez but if proclaimed himself a republican, Home Secretary.
whelm the casual client with a quicker route should from time to time offer it will be utilised, amid the frantic applause of 20,000;
Now he is back in office as Pre-'obsequious attentions, when a year listeners in the bull-ring of sident of the Republic. It would ago she would have been ignored. Valencia. From then onwards he be difficult to imagine anyone more Glitter Outside, But―― maintained a faith. almost mystic guited to the task. For he is a The Christmas illuminations in its character, in the ultimate product of the Republican move were never more brilliant, more lo- triumph of the Republic. This ment; he is part of the Republic. genious and more colourful. The faith was nat dimmed by the His own modest personality is sub- fronts of these stores are a glitter the General Post Office that on and after February 1 no taxed cor- failure of the December plot, which merged and dominated by the per- ing kaleidoscope of moving colours, respondence will be placed in the Boxes. A notification will be sub- collapsed after
Commandant sonality of the new Spain which but the crowd watch from the out-stituted and Box-holders are requested to call or send for the cor- Galan'a precipitate start.
has suddenly arisen.
side and not from the inside. Be- respondence at the Box-holders' Lobby, and there pay the amount of hind the well-stocked windows the the Tax against the delivery of the letters or packets. sale-rooms are half empty. Mana-
THE PRINCE SETS NEW FASHION.
Spotted Ties.
The Prince of Wales; when he wore a scarf with white spots. started a new fashion which young men have taken up with enthusiasm. All neckwear is breaking into spots. Ties--whether cravats, bows or knots-betray, a kind of "feverish complexion." This, at least, is the view of a writer in The Tailor and Cutter who attended the private view of the French Art Exhibition at Burlington House. The writer says:
"If this sort of thing Increases it
clination to wear buttonholes. Never gers and floor walkers are apathe- since Victorian days has there been tle or in despair, such a demand for a flower in the As for Montmartre, it is dead. coat by day or night."
The brightly illuminated hillsides
But everyone at the exhibition which never slept have become s did not win approval.
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"Ona connot commend the Of the several hundred cabarets Frenchman who, with top hat and which once thrived in its narrow tail coat, flamed out in a red tie. streets hardly a score remain open, He stood before the portrait of and these are half abandoned. Madame de Pompadour, and I There is a final criterion by: thought the, with her exquisite, which to judge of the disappearing taste, looked most reproachfully in galaties of Paris. his direction.
It is that the Russians are learn- "There were also a few Britons, ing. otherwise correctly clad, who They successively migrated from wore brown woollles! They are ad-Constantinople to Vienna, from vised to tuck such informal com-Vienna to Berlin, and, from Berlin forters inside their trousers and to Parts in the wake of the great cover them up with a waistcoat.?! wave of galety which followed the
Armistice.
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