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The

in Spain, Why they Happened,

|J. LANGDON-DAVIES|What they Mean.

THERE

HERE has been elected are the Power that has chosen The Lerroux Government the bourgeois Republican, which followed was as corrupt Azana, for their national symbol.

almost unanimously a new Spanish President. He is n man who was nearly executed less than two years ago for un- successful rebellion against the State. Now he becomes

the

symbol and the guardian of the Spanish Constitution.

What sort of a man is this Azana, and what has happened to make him the one man ac- ceptable to Spanish opinion as President?

There was a time when he was an extremist in Spanish polities. now most of his strength comes from the left of his own Liberal Republican position..

They have done so for one reason, that Fascism may not prevail, and on one condition, that Spain shall be increasingly the Republic of all Spaniards Who Work.

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as any other, so that Azana hiniself said that he preferred a king to such Ministers.

Spain had been led to, hope for too much and conditions got steadily worse.

The revolt of October, 1934, was put down ruthlessly.

Everyone left alive who had

THAT is the implication which had any complicity in the re-

Azanu must not forget. Azana has been misunder- stood by most Englishmen who have tried to follow the strange revolution of the Spanish Re- public; for there is one curious thing about Spanish political life which must puzzle us. The hundreds of thousands are able to understand two of workers, who, dressed in kinds of revolution, one legal, their blue and their red shirts, which We ourselves practise Socialists and Communists al- whenever we use the ballot to our Government; the

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MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1936.

BRITISH UNIVERSITIES

arms

volution was sent to prison for long terms of years. But on the prison ship in Barcelona har bour

the guards saluted their prisoners whenever they came on deck.

AZANA, 54-year-old ex- civil servant, prominent litterateur, playwright, translator of Borrow's "Bible in Spain," came into political limelight as "find" of Republic after revolu tion which exiled King

Alfonso

which would like to see a milli- tary dictatorship,

The second danger to the Azana regime will be the possi- ble failure of its attempts to "Why do you salute us?" one bring about the necessary re- We asked. "Because the result forms within the structure of a next time may be different and bourgeois capitalist society. we would like you to remember Azana are frankly doubtful of The Socialist supporters of our courtesy," was the reply.

bis being able to succeed.

on May the First down other illegal, the French Revo- the Paseo del Prado, while the lution and the Russian being statue of Valasquez, palette in types of this second, hand, bent forward as if men- suring them with his eye-these

due

The general level of education NOTES OF THE DAY competently led and easily put

Great Britain is commendably

Ons kinds.

The fall of the monarchy was to two separate episodes; first, there was an armed revolt,

down, leaving, one would say, nothing behind it but a few graves and ruined reputations. Yet when a few months later the towns and villages of Spain to the election of proceeded their mayors and local councils. everywhere Republican candi-

dates

were swept into office; and before all the results were known, King Alfonso was cross- ing the Spanish frontier into

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All failures will be used as

Within eighteen months most of the prisoners had been trans- fuel by the implacable syndica- ported by legal use of the ballot list opposition, for though anar- syndicalism are to the seats of government. The chism and election of February of this losing ground every day to Soctalism and Communism, year was an overwhelming vic- Spain remains the one country tory for the Popular Front, so where anti-political syndicalism much so that the Right did the has a real following.

only thing left to them, they sulked and refused to vote at all. But this legal revolution would never have happened had it not been for the illegal revolt so easily crushed less than two years before.

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It is especially strong in the country, so that Azana's first task will be to see that whoever be appoints to take his present place ment continues at an accelerated as head of the Govern-

pace the work of agrarian re- form.

high, and, since the War, 'succes- COST OF LIVING Marck Weber's Orchestra sive Governments have institut-

The British Ministry of Labour ed educational reforms of vari-is now engaged on the revision of the basis of the enst-of-living The tremendous index number. An Advisory Com: changes in social life have neces-mittee is being formed, on which the employers organisations and

It is a paradox that in the sitated a broader view of the the trade unions will be represent

AND now Azana, implicated highly legal Spanish republic, general problem of education,cu. The Committee will be occu

designed to help them by lawful in two illegal revolutions, means, peasants are not wait- pied, in collecting data regarding and it has been found advisable the main items of expenditure of

both of them grossly unsuccess- ing for decrees before they take to extend the activities of the working-class households, and

number of housewives throughout

ful, is legally elected President possession of the land, for by. Universities so as to embrace in the country will be asked to co-permanent exile,

without real opposition.

the time the red tape of bureau- cracy could give it them le- their scope more students from operate by keeping detailed ac

Will he have a peaceful six gally, seed-time would be past. counts over specified periods. The

of office? He has two and starvation be upon them. the wider masses of the people, task covers sa wide a field that it NOW the important thing to years National and local organisations eighteen months to complete. The gal armed uprising, this elec- the ruthless though secret op- the land is going back to the is expected to take more than realise is that without ille dangers to fear. First, there is

Everywhere, therefore, to-day have helped to provide a uni-revision will affect 184 wage agrce- foral result would never have position of Fascist and pseudo- peasant without due process of versity education for a larger tits, which are based on the pre- been. Spain could only put the Fascist elements to the Right. Pes

|sent index number, and the wagen

Peacefully for the most Republican mark on the ballot Disunion is the chief character part, for the police are felt to The University Grants Commit. present monthly figures are cal-paper by dipping her pen in the istic of these. There is first of Pe on the site of the sterkers all the Catholle or more accur and the peasants, a feeling culated on a percentage increase on tee now distribute, on behalf of the cost of maintaining a working-

ately the Jesuit party of Gil which explains much of the class family in July, 1914, on re-

Robles, the State, over £2,000,000 un-cognised standards of living. The

Party of the Spanish Hitler, in the six years of Azana's rule a Spanish Dollfuss; calm and patience to be seen second, there is the Fascist throughout Spain-to-day, But- nually to British Universities, 1914 figure was reached after an extensive examination of a large

Calvo Sotelo, while a further grant of £600,-number of working-class budgets

the law has got to catch up with 000 is made by local authorities. In all parts of Great Britain. As a

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found that food accounted for sixty per cent; rent and rates sixteen per cent; clothing twelve per cent; fuel and light efght per cent, and

penditure. Since the War there report issued by the Committee have been a number of changes; covering the last six years, into a number of working-class Electricity has been introduced "despite two or three years of homes; artificial silk is now in- unexampled financial depression, cluded in the category of women's clothing; nud smoking is now the record of independent sup-freely indulged in by both sexes. pori and generosity has been a There have also been alterations In diet: the consumption of remarkable feature of the past milk, fruit and vegetables has in- six years." The grants-in-aid creased, while a decreased con- sumption has been marked in farin- enable many students who; be-accous foods. Compared with the cause of restricted means, could 1914 figures, the cost of living as far an food is concerned is thirty not otherwise do so, to benefit per cent higher; the average full- by a University education. Intimo wage of a labourer in the deed, it is estimated that forty-higher; to engineering it in 81 per building industry is 83 per cent two per cent. of undergraduates cent higher; and in the railway receive some kind of financial service 120 per cent higher. The assistance. Whereas the Uni-average increase in all wages is

66% per cent. versities once housed only the |sons-and a few daughters!-of

the professional and well-to-do have a higher function than that classes, they are now mingling of training young men and places of young men and women women for employment. They of every class. The humblest seek to develop character as well family may now cherish the am-as intelligence. To-day there is bition of sending the most something of n. lull in the promising of the children to a development of the Universities, University. The report states, and it is suggested that this as a fact of the first order of im-gives an opportunity for serious portance, that a large part of the thought as to the lines future now increase in the number of development should take.

One students has come from the thing is certain, namely, that the ranks of the people. "At least ideal aimed at will be the train- fifty per cent, of the students ining of students in such a way the provincial Universities of that they will become balanced the country began their educa-human beings, freely and fully tion in the public elementary developed, and not cramped to schools." British Universities fit any narrow pattern.

blood of martyrs.

The first two

years of the titsiastic amateurs, poets and Republic saw a group of en- novelists many of them, trying to reform several hundred years of rotten public life. They were incompetent and tactless; they lost support and left the way clear to the return in a new disguise of the old clique.

Between these there is about as much cohesion as there was between Hitler and Dollfuss.

Third, there are the clandestine royalists, and fourth a group

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

"Come along, if you like, and maybe you'll pick up some- thing for your book; but I won't have no line to sit around telling you a lot of romantic nonsense about the river."

Azana's Spain takes its place among the democracles, none too many to-day, determined to stem the rising tide of dietn torial nationalism.

DURING tite

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elections of February the Puerta del Sol, Madrid's nerve centre, was over-shadowed by a colossal poster in the interests of Gil Robles. Photographic "monta- ge" depicted Gil Robles pointing to a vast concourse of people and saying: "These are my Power."

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The photograph from which the crowd had been constructed was recognised as being one of

mass meeting addressed in fuet by Azana. The enthusiasts of the Left wished to burn it down; "No, leave it up," said Azana, “and let Madrid laugh."

Every day the thousands strolling in the Puerta del Sol and gazing up at the picture laughed more and more. They, saw something American, or at least Hollywooden, in Gil Robles poster and something Spanish in Azana's way of breating it.,

We may be quite sure that.. Azana will go about solving Spanish questions in a Spanish way; and we should remember that a part of the Spanish way Is a profound respect for the reign of law provided the law seems just to the conscience of the people.

Spain to-day has perhaps the most constitutional and least corrupt Government on the Con-. tinent of Europe. All good Europeans will wish Azana well.