Abstract

Ferment in Spain

The article presents a reprint of a comment on the situation in Spain from the periodical, Manchester Guardian. It has become apparent since this article was written that the relaxation in the censorship was only temporary. For domestic news it is stronger than ever. Several newspapers have been altogether suppressed and many others fined. The early edition of the newspapers of Valencia was recently confiscated because it carried the speech of statesman Niceto Alcalá Zamora, prominent liberal, who declared himself in favor of a conservative republic in a meeting that had to be held in a small theater seating 2,000 while more than 50,000 stood outside. The censorship of foreign dispatches, on the other hand, was at the same time lifted once more, for the speech of Alcalá Zamora was reported in the American press.