SPAIN’S NEW REGIME
LAST TRACES OF DICTATOR’S RULE REMOVAL OF SIGNBOARD Times Cable. LONDON, Monday. The Madrid correspondent of “The Times” states that at daybreak a dozen firemen were seen fixing long ladders and removing the signboard bearing the words “National Consultative Assembly,” which General de Rivera, the ex-Dictator, had caused to be erected to blot out the inscription “Chamber of Deputies” on the Chamber buildings. This showed that the earliest opportunity was being taken of affording visual proof that King Alfonso last evening had signed a decree abolishing General de Rivera’s Assembly, which was a bugbear to Parliamentarians. Count Romanones, who was among the various politicians whom General de Rivera ostracised and fined, and is the doyen of the deputies, with childish glee carried off a big letter "A.” He intends to hang it over his desk as a souvenir of the ex-Dictator’s downfa’
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 900, 18 February 1930, Page 9
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145SPAIN’S NEW REGIME Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 900, 18 February 1930, Page 9
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