NEW SPANISH CABINET

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22755, 16 December 1935, Page 11

NEW SPANISH CABINET

CATHOLICS EXCLUDED GENERAL'S UNIQUE EXPERIENCE MADRID, December 14. (Received Dec. 15, at 10 p.m.) To arrive at Pamplona in order to serve a sentence of one month’s imprisonment in a fortress for deserting his post and to hear four nours later that he had been appointed Minister of War was the experience of General Nicolas Molero, who was to-day included in the Cabinet under the Premiership of Senor Manuel Valladares. The Ministry resigned on December 9 owing to the Premier, Senor Chaparieta, being unable to persuade his colleagues to support economies to balance the Budget. Pour 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 Gil Robles, who was continuing in the War Ministry pending the appointment of his successor, ordered his imprisonment. Senor Valladares’s Cabinet consists mostly of ex-Ministers, but excludes Catholics, resulting in Senor Gil Robles, leader of the Fascists, the largest party in the Cortes, ordering all Catholic municipal officers to resign.