SPANISH CABINET

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 220, 13 June 1933, Page 9

SPANISH CABINET

President’s Request to Don Azana SOCIALIST-RADICAL RIFT x (Received June 12, 7 p.m.) Madrid, June 12. Several efforts to interest the Socialist and Radical leaders to form a Cabinet all failed, because the parties refused to/co-operate with one another. The President, Don Zamora, was finally compelled to ask Don Azana to form a new Cabinet. The Government resigned last week following a disagreement between the Pres dent and the Prime Minister. The President, Don Zamora, declared that he must consult the Republicans regarding the Ministerial changes suggested by Don Azana, who interpreted this as a lack of confidence. Behind the Government’s resignation lies Don Zamora’s disapproval of the Religious Orders Bill, which, it is understood, he signed with the greatest reluctance. The passage of the Bill, however, left him for the first time in possession of full Presidential powers under the Republican Constitution, for the Bill completed the programme of legislation for which the present Parliament was elected in June, 1931. • RELIGIOUS BILL Excommunication Proposal OFFICIALS AND DEPUTIES Madrid, June 11. The Episcopate is considering the possible excommunication of Government officials and Deputies responsible for the new Religious Orders Bill. It is considered that President Zamora, who attended Mass as usual two days after signing the law, will not be excommunicated inasmuch as he did not consciously attempt a crime against the Church’s divine liberty, but opposed the, insertion of an article compelling the passage of the Bill. The Papal Nuncio will shortly confer with the Pope regarding the situation which the law has created.

,19-YEAR-OLD PRODIGY • Shot Dead by Mother WRITER AND REFORMER London, June 11. The career of a youthful prodigy was terminated when Hildegart Rodriguez, a notable writer and ref rmer, of Madrid, aged nineteen, was shot dead by her mother, aged fifty, who surrendered herself to the police. Mr. Havelock Ellis, writing in the “Adelphi Magazine,” extols the amazing talent of the girl, whom he styles “St. Hildegart,” owing to her pioneering spirit in the cause of humanity. Her mother, a remarkable woman, reared her daughter eugenically, without baptism or religious instructions. Hildegart, whom her mother taught, could make words in letter blocks at eleven months of age, read at twentytwo months, write at thirty months, went to the university in her thirteenth year, wrote prize essays on the world’s famous lovers at fourteen, and secured a law degree at seventeen. She studied medicine, philosophy, and music, and was an accomplished linguist >