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the Carlists and the Phalangists call (as the Spanish Fascists themselves into one party to be named the Spanish Traditional Phalanx, and the immediate dis- solution

ition of all other political groups in Spain. Such a decrée is bound to cause consternation in the ranks of many of supporters, and time alone - can show whether it is a measure of his strength or his desperation. Not merely does it cut the roots FIGUEIREDO LEMOS Mr. and from under the hopes, and ambi- Mrs. M. A. de Figueiredo will be tions-of-the-

le constitutionalists plessed to see all relatives and and the various separatist groups friends on the occasion of the which have rallied to his banner, wedding of their son Carlos Au- but it also commands an amal- gusto to Miss Adüzinda Correa de gamation not unlike the mixture Lemos, daughter of Mr. and Mra of chalk and cheese. Apart Leopoldo C. de Lemos of Shang- from a mutual contempt for de- hai, which will take place on mocratic ideals and methods, Saturday, the 29th May, 1937, at the Carlists and the Phalangists 4,30 p.m. at St. Teresa's Church, have little, if anything, in com- Kowloon Tong, and thereafter at mon. The former cling tenaci- the Reception at Club de Recreio, ously to the legitimist theory King's Park, Kowloon. No invita- of monarchy and to a concept of tion cards are being issued.

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government. which is, inits essence, feudal; the latter have lembraced the revolutionary doc-

Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 26, 1937.trine of the corporative State

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THE SPANISH TRAGEDY

Events reported to-day

and the aggressive Hationalism which Mussolini has associated with it. Franco has not hitherto directly identified himself with either of these two parties. In from its origins, at least, his revolt Barbastro illustrate the

real was simply a military rising of a lest tragedy of Spain. Ever kind well known to Spanish his- since the commencement

of tory. But international forces

have carried him into the

deeper civil war, both parties

and there seems little seas, the conflict have been constantly embarrassed by the latest decree aims at establish- doubt that General Franco's separatist tendencies and the sectional rivalries

ing in Spain a totalitarian State within their respective ranks. These have!

on the Fascist or. Nazi model. not merely frustrated all at- The establishment of. the tempts to devise a properly Spanish Traditional Phalanx and integrated plan of campaign, but the proscription of all other they have also denied to both political organisations is but one contending forces that singleness of several signs that the Spanish of purpose which is the mother civil war is entering a new, and of efficiency and the godmother perhaps decisive, phase. Before of victory. There can be no the Spanish winter set in it was greater mistake than to regard generally believed. that the the Spanish civil war as a clean superior armaments and dis- cut struggle between the rival cipline of the insurgents would creeds of Fascism and Commun- inevitably ensure their ultimate ism. Actually it is a struggle victory. But during the past few between two loosely-knit coali- months the prospects have alter- tions which, while they un-ed. Despite chronic dissension doubtedly represent the so-called within its ranks, the Government Left and Right wings of political has succeeded in raising new thought, are themselves torn by armies possessed of a new faction and entirely lacking in thusiasm and modern weapons, any homogeneity of either poli and the tide of war has recently {tical philosophy or national been flowing in their favour. purpose. Among the Govern-The failure of the insurgents to ment supporters are to be frnd capture Madrid after several old-time Liberals, who abhor the mont's siege and the subse- very name of Marx; Socialists, quent success of the counter- Syndicalists, Anarchists, who op attack launched by its defenders pose all governmental regulation have disappointed Germany and and Communists; to whom it is Italy. This development gives the very breath of life. Equally the renewed insurgent assaults motley and incongruous is the on Madrid and Bilbao a special composition of General Franco's significance. Unless General forces, which include Conserva-Franco can score a resounding tives, who want to restore to the success by the capture of one or Church its old supremacy and to other of these cities, he is in the aristocrats their lost lands; peril of losing the active support Carlists who wish to revive the of the Fascist Powers, and absolute monarchy; Fascists, without that support his cause who demand the establishment seems doomed.”

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