SPANISH POLITICS
A NEW CABINET
CATHOLICS EXCLUDED
PRISONER BECOMES
MINISTER
United Press Association—By Electric ToloBraph—Copyright. MADRID, December 14. Arriving at Pamplona to serve a sentence of a month's imprisonment in a fortress for deserting his post, General Nicolas Molero heard four hours later that he had been appointed Minister of War. Today he was included in the Cabinet under the Premiership of Senor Manuel Valladares. „ Ehe Ministry resigned on December 9'Owing to the Premier, Senor Chaparieta, being unable to persuade his colleagues to support economies and balance the Budget. Four Ministers either, failed or refused to form a Cabinet. They included Senor Maura, who summoned General Molero from Valladolid, where he was commanding a division, to the War Ministry, but when he reached Madrid General Molero found that Senor Maura had failed, whereupon Senor Gilrobles, Vrho was continuing the War Ministry pending the appointment of a successor, ordered his imprisonment. ■'< Senor Valladares's Cabinet comprises mostly ex-Ministers, but excludes Catholics, resulting in Senor Gilrobles, leader of the Fascists, the largest party in the Cortes ; ordering all Catholic municipal officers to resign. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 145, 16 December 1935, Page 11
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180SPANISH POLITICS Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 145, 16 December 1935, Page 11
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