JUSTICE FOR SPAIN
WHY ZAMORA RESIGNED MADRID, Oct. 17. The ex-Prime Minister, Senator Alcala Zamora, in an exclusive intcav view, said he had resigned so that he could luive a free hand in fighting for fair treatment for the Catholics. “Tho Ministerial majority’s formula is undemocratic arid unjust. 1 hoped for equality for all Spaniards, but the Constitution has been distorted," he said. "Relieving that the 1 Catholics, whether in the majority or the minority, are e.ntitled to protection, and having failed to carry a liberal formula of tolerance and justice, I resigned in order to promote legal revision of the Constitution before it is further attacked. "When it is reformed I shall retire, feeling that I have acted as a Spaniard, a Liberal, and a Catholic. Till then I possess the hope, faith, and power to fight unfettered as a simple progessivist Parliamentarian,”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17612, 30 October 1931, Page 9
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144JUSTICE FOR SPAIN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17612, 30 October 1931, Page 9
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