CABINET CRISIS Faces Spanish Loyalists

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 103, 18 May 1937, Page 7

CABINET CRISIS Faces Spanish Loyalists

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CABALLERO RESIGNS Moderate Socialist Asked To Form Ministry ANARGHISTS OPPOSED

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•• (Received 18, 11.30 a.m.) YALENCIA, May. 17. The emergence of the Commimists as the ehampioiis' of law aad order is the most curioug feature of the Cabinet crisis which the Preeident, Senor Manuel Azana, is still seeking to solve. The Communigts supported the bourgeois Left Republican parties whose sympathies they won by in« sistence on winning the civil war, curbing the activities of the Anarchists Cthe National Labour Confederation) and the championship of expropriation of small shop-keepers and employers. The crisis is primarily a move towards amore moderate Govern* ment and the re-establishing of the pre-Oivil War Popular Front

ilovernment, tp which lt is beUeved the democratic Western Powers would be sympathetic, The Gpmmnnists miitrust Senor Ciaballero as being too partial to the Anarchist group. The Minister of Finance, J3r, Juan Negrin, a Moderate Socialist, has heen asked to form a Cabinet. Senor Caballero/ falled to form a Cabinet owing to the rejection of his reeonstrnctjon plan by the. Communist, Socialist and Jtepnb' iican groups.