Will Socialism Live In Spain?
CONFLICTING CURRENTS IN POLITICAL SEAS
4
White-Haired Old Man Youths' Chief
Madrid, Feb. 5.
The coming general parliamentary elections in Spain find the well-drilled Socialist party, the strongest labour group in this country, experiencing critical internal strife which repeated conciliation efforts have failed to end.
Three distinct currents of thought divide the party: the extremists who believe that only through violence
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New Titles For A
New King
K
ING EDWARD VIII]
has two new titles. In Ottawa he has been declared "Supreme Lord in and over the Do- minion of Canada."
Hitherto the Royal title has been King of “Great Britain and Ireland and the British. Domi- nions Beyond the Seas," but now, under the Statubo of West- minster, 1931, the ruler is pre- claimed Sovereign of each of the Dominiona separately.
For the first time the Sovereign has also been pro- claimed King of the Dominion of New Zealand.
can the Socialists attain power; the conservatives who 'BRIDEGROOM' ARRESTED
have faith in "evolutionary Socialism," that is, educat- ion of the masses to Socialism instead of forcing ita acceptance; the centrists, who seek to straddle the fence. The three currents are represented respectively by Francisco Largo Caballero,
Julian Besteiro and Indalecio Prieto,
Despite the family troubles, the disciplined Sociallata will 40 united to the elections, The settlement of the internal dif-i fioultles will probably come after] elections when the airing of opinions will not barm chances at the polls.
The problem stirring the prole- tariat party revolves amuïd Large Caballero who resigned us pre-
sident of the organisation recent- ly. The blue-eyed, white-haired
:
Great Scholar, Hostess, and Woman of Business
former plasterer who rose to be a MRS. FLORA SASSOON
cabinet minister during the first
two years of the Spanish republic,
ls generally recognised as the
leader of the extremist group in
DEAD
the Socialist party. THE death was announced
ly advocated violence as the only
means for the proletarint to reach
in London last month
power. He rejects halfway men of Mrs. Flora Sassoon, who
sures and is not convinced by the for the past 25 years has
"evolutionary Socialism" prenched
by Besteiro who preceded Largo made her large house in
president of the
Bruton-street, W., a salon
Caballero
Socialists.
as
Backed By Youth Caballero is backed in his Red beliefs by the energetic Socialist Youth organisation.
for scholars of all nations, and who has been described
as the link between London
He resigned the party presidency and India. when the executive committee of
AT THE ALTAR
Warsaw, Feb. 3. JOHANN CHOMSKI, thirty-year-old American of Polish birth, was standing with his veiled bride before the altar of a church. in Warsaw this afternoon when the syren of a police car was heard outside.
Just as the priest was about to place the rings on the bride's and bridegroom's fingers there was a commotion at the door, and five police officers rushed into the church shouting "In the name of the law stop the ceremony!" The priest, startled, dropped the rings. The police officers surrounded Chomski and took him off to police headquarters.
They allege that he is a triple bigamist.
SECRETS OF GIZA PYRAMID
14 TOMBS OF KING'S SONS NOW FOUND
Cairo, Feb. 10.
arc acquainted
People who with the Giza Pyramids will be surprised when they visit them this year to find that the area round the Second, or Chephren,
Kingsford Smith
Still
Pyramid has been completely Alive?
transformed.
Prof. Selim Hassan, who in the last few years has made highly in-
the group approved a minor pro-| She died after a long illness, at teresting discoveries in this region jret to which he was known to be the age of 79. She was born in on behalf of the Egyptian Univer- opposed. He quit and
claimed Bombay, the grand-daughter ofsity, has entirely cleared the area that the other committee members, David Sassoon, who founded the between the Pyramid and ite pyra- wanted him to leave. The Social-grent firm of Jewish Bombay mer-mil city and til bare severni: ist youth representative and three chants of that name, and she marmastabas frectangular tomb con- other Caballero sympathisers also ried her unele, Solomon David structions) of resigned. The committee asked Sassoon. She la first-cousin to SirThe burial places of two more of
great importance. A him to reconsider but he refused] Philip Sassoon.
Chephren's children have been un-
MINISTER AND SEANCE
IN HOLLAND REPORT of a seance in Holland at which Charles Kingsford Smith was stated to be
LONDON'S ROYAL PRISONER
"PRINCE CHARMING,” .OF THE NILE
May Yet Rule Egypt
London, Feb. 10.
to
IN a gaunt and ancient, man- sion on London's Kingston Hill the 16-year-old heir one of the oldest thrones in the world is living the life of a virtual prisoner, surrounded by guards and disciplinarians.
The youth, over six feet in height and powerfully built, is Crown Prince Farouk of Egypt, the "Prince Charming" of the Nile.
Any day he may be recalled to Cairo to become A reigning Pharaoh for his father, the 70- year-old King Fuad, is in poor health and his condition has been aggravated by the political unrest and sporadic violence of recent months in Egypt.
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But, although the attention of
his native land and of Britain is turned upon him, this
shouldered youth has no
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oppor-
tuity to bask in publicity. Sent
In Central District.
to England to study preparatory One, two and three-roomed up-to-date furnished and unfurnished to entering the British Royal apartments, each with kitchen, pantry, bathroom, and detached Military Academy at Woolwich, servants' quarters, at moderate rents, in the new building known Prince Farouk is constantly being reminded by His advisors that for the present he is only a student.
On constant watch over him is Sir Ahmed Hassanein Bay. famous as the discoverer of the lost oasis of Libya and comp troller to the boy prince.
Prince Farouk is full of energy and would Hke to see something of London's gayer life, so a deputy comptroller watches over him as well.
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general
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The general is a hard
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LIKE ENGLISH BOY..
This student prince looks, acts and speaks like an English boy. This is due to a large extent, prob.) bly, to the fact that he has had an English governess since he was born. He speaks English without a trace of recent, but an Arable!
him lest he forget his native tongue.
tutor accompanies
Waiting upon him constantly are tive dusky valets from the Nile. Only the butler and the cook of
Hare English.
and announced he would never Her husband died in 1891, and I earthed just in front of their Sir preside over the Socialist party as after many years of travelling back father's pyramid. This makes 14 long as ite executive and national and forth from London to India, chlidren so far located. -committees consist of their present | ahe settled in Bruton-street in 1911. members,
Her house became the necepted These two sons are Nehetepṛa, When government permission meeting-place for all the most emin-meaning "He who belongs to Ra-l still on an island near was granted for the resumption ent Indian visitors, and for scholars satisfied." and Hetepra, meaning of publication of the party's daily of all nations. Students who were "Ra-la-satisfied." In Nchetepra's Sumatra, has been for the 18-room house on Kingston organ, El Socialisto, after 15 friendless in London were always mastaba are an uninscribed sarco- monthe suspension, the executive welcomed there, and every Saturday phagus of limestone, alabaster Warded by Sir Hubert committee asked the two Madrid afternoon she threw her house open vases, and canople jar to contain
Montgomery, British the viscera of the mumkiy, Socialist Weeklies, Democracia, to anybody. mouthpiece of the conservative
Minister at The Hague,caped elements, and Claridad, organ of
Eastern Dishos
Many orthodox Jews were mar-
Titica Inscribed On Wall
Largo Caballero, to cease publicu-ried from her house, and she gave show by his names and titles that tion because the polemic between the two periodicals, was harmful banquets and receptions to hundreds he was a king's son. The inscrip- to party unity. Democracia obey of guests.
tions on Hetopra's tomb show him
The inscriptions on the walls to the Foreign Office.
A policeman stands guard night drive that leads to the house in and day at the end of the long
the depth of four acres of lands- grounds. Within the grounds are plain-clothes officers, No chances are taken with
The statement origin-Britain's most distinguished young:
the year.
VIGOROUS ROUTINE
The future pharaoh arises at
ad but Claridad diarogarded the There were always Eastern dishes as vizier and lector priest of his ated from a Dutch wo- request and continues to appear, on her table, and the only offence father. There is no sarcophagus. publishing attacks upon the execu- which her guests could commit was But both tombs contained mummies man, claiming that Sir tive committee and El Socialista to abstain from the hospitality she of the Ptolemaic period (300 to 30 Kingsford-Smith's fate tous back to scomparir because the latter is not support- joffered. ing Caballero.
Burning Question'
BC), indicating that they Her son, Mr. David Sassoon, used for reburials later.
Business Affairs
were
Coral Roofs
n brisk horseback ride,
ed sometimes by Sir Ahmed, same- times by the vigilant policeman- general,
At 8.30 ho eats an English brenk- fast-kippers and toust-and thea the day's work begins.
Tutors recommended by the British government arrive. Thero Is a French tutor who benches the Prince twice a week.
spoke of his mother's great scholar- Near these is the mastaba of had been revealed in a ship. She was acknowledged to be Hetepi, who was one of 10 Royal seance at her house. one of the most learned women in Counsellors of Upper Egypt and To Caballero and his followers the world. He himself inherited director of the king's fields, river --and the number is great-the her tastes, and his collection of banks, and other works (Minister received from Captain Beekman, A message, it was stated, was question is "With Caballero or Oriental manuscripts, compiled dur- of Agriculture and Irrigation). Against Caballero.”
ing many years, is unrivalled. The youth group in a flaming|
Hetepi's sarcophagus is of lime- the pilot of the Dutch Flying Hotel, Primarily my mother was versed stone with very large bands of in- which crashed in the desert in manifesto of bitter opposition to in Jewish knowledge," he said. scriptions on all four sides, giving the precent party leaders pro-"She knew not only Hebrew in the his names and titles. On the sides December 1934. · claimed that The Socialist Youth accepted sense of the word, but also there are also representations of Federation considers itself free of the Talmud. She had the learning the facado of the royal palace and
He is tutored daily in English, all obligation to the present party of a Rabbi.
two tutors alternating. They chiefs."
other palace scenes rendered most
Captain Beckman's spirit was
teach Claridad publishes weekly lists
artistically and in such fine work-
him history, geography, of mesanges of support received by fined to that. It seemed to me
"But her knowledge was not con-manship as to resemble weaving. alleged to have said that Sir
mathematics, chemistry and phy- All these are very unusual, but Charles Kingsford-Smith was still
slcs as well. Caballero from. Socialists and sometimes that she knew every-there is one feature hitherto not
Twice a week the young Prince Socialist branches in various party thing. Although I am her son, I associated with the Fourth Dynason, an island where there were
drives to Woolwich Academy of Spain and El Socialiata is doing must say that I never heard of an-ty. This consists of inscriptions coral reefs, and that he could be the same but listing the support other woman who had such a great in black ink within the sarcopha- found by anyona flying over Banku Almost daily in the gardens of the where a sergeant-instructor gives him an hour of gymnastics. received by the executive com- learning. She had mittoo. Among those standing by studled the literature of many
read and gus representing offerings. the committee wore Ramon Gon-nations. The literature of this side of the sarcophagus, just facing certain line.
They are inscribed on the cast lon (Sumatra) and searching on a large manalon he boxes, fences and plays tennis with his "ward- zaloz Pena, who is serving a 20-country, for instance, she knew as where the dead man's face would your prison sentence for allegedly intimately na
ere" and is extremely fond of professor might. boing the leader of the 1934 revolu- "Then she had a
recline according to ritual, so that; The report has been conveyed to
rugger. He went to Twickenham tremendous when he awakens in the after-life the Air Miniatry and Dominions cently for the England-New Zea with the then, Prince of Wales re- tion in Asturias; Luls Jimenez knowledge of commerce, and, the he will have food available... Asua, attorney who successfully affairs of the world. When my
.. land test match. defended Caballero when the lat father died ahe stepped into his Prof. Solim
In clearing down to the bedrock | Office.
found places where
He is said to excel at poló and ter was tried on charges of being place as manager of the firm, and groups of six, sometimes 10 or 12, the leader of the 1934 Socialist for nearly ten years she controlled quarrymen sat while they were cut Br. J. T. Pethyridge disappeared
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and plans to play at Ranelagh" in prac-i rebellion and occured his 'acquit-all the branches, both here and in fing
and games this tal; Juan Negrin, prominent phy-India.
out the rock before them on November 7 during an attempt: Fician and medical professor, and
The blocks were used. for mastabas.
Prince Farouk will remain in Julian Zugazagoitia, editor of house, at the same time, both men
"Often one, would see in this and inner portions of the pyramids, to make a record flight from Eng-England for three years-unless
The whole area, about half a mile and to Australia.
·El Socialistă. The olgnore stated of great affairs and half a dozen long, from the Second Pyramid}
called back to Egypt meanwhllo-| they were supporting the commit-eminent scholars. Her charity and to the Valley Temple, next to the
and will be in strict incognito all bee "in its arduous, and difficult her bospitality were great, and if Sphinx, has now
A long and wide search was. that time. Not until he has pass- labour of saving the party and the anyone came to London from abroad making
been cleared, mado for them, in which R.A.F. aired out of Woolwich academy as a a fine display of the
gunner will he be allowed a taste of proletariat from confusion and having no friends, they always pyramid cities of the dead and the planes joined, but they were not auicidal division."--United Press. found a friend in her."
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