CHANGES IN SPAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20480, 4 February 1930, Page 11

CHANGES IN SPAIN.

DISCIPLINE FOR DE RIVERA. CHALLENGE TO A DUEL. (Received February 4, 12.25 a.m.) Times Cable. LONDON, February 3. The Madrid correspondent of the Times says the new Cabinet held its first meeting to-day. Sweeping decisions were made showing that General Berenguer is determined to re-establish the Constitution in every particular. Five university professors who opposed the Dictatorship, . including a famous philologist, Professor Unamuno, at present in exile, will be reinstated. General Primo do Rivera received a firm reminder that soldiers on the active list must not meddle in politics. A second, representing the Duke of Almodovar, has communicated with General do Rivera and demanded reparation by arms for insults offered to his principal six years ago.

NEW PRIME MINISTER.

NO RETURN TO AUTOCRACY.

MADRID, Feb. *2.

A North American Newspaper Alliance copyright' message says General Damasco Berenguer, the new Prime Minister of Spain, in setting out his political programme, paid a tribute to the ex-Prime Minister, General Primo de Rivera. He went on to sav:—

A dictatorship indefinitely prolonged is useless for anything. It is impossible to return to autocracy and is fundamentally necessary to re-establish liberty and to hold elections, the date of which I cannot indicate at present. I am a constitutionalist and I intend to return to tho Constitution of 1876.

Wo will re-establish the Foreign Ministry which was suppressed by General de Rivera and extend its importance. We shall scrupulously respect all international agreements.