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Manuel Azana

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Azaña, Manuel 

Born Jan. 10, 1880, in Alcalá de Henares; died Nov. 4, 1940, in Montauban, France. Spanish political leader and man of letters.

Azaña participated in the Pact of San Sebastián (1930) and in that same year founded the Republican Action Party (1930–34). After the republic was established, he became war minister in 1931, and from 1931 to 1933 he was head of the government. In April 1934 he became the leader of the Left Republican Party, which joined the Frente Popular in 1936 Following the latter’s victory in the elections of Feb. 16, 1936, Azaña became head of the government, and subsequently, from May 1936 to Mar. 1, 1939, was president of the republic. During the period of the National Revolutionary War (1936–39), Azaña was the actual leader of the right wing of the Frente Popular. After the victory of Franco’s forces, he emigrated to France.
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Certainly, Belloc did so at times, as did his literary descendant Roy Campbell, who numbered among his plentiful aversions Elizabeth I's regime ("Cecil's Ogpu") and Spain's bespectacled prime minister Manuel Azana ("Four-eyed Janus .
Sweetness & spite: the forgotten pleasures of light verse by Stove, R.J. / The American Conservative
Well before 1936's bloodbath, Spanish Prime Minister Manuel Azana had rejoiced in his own anticlerical legislation: "With these measures, Spain ceases to be Catholic.
The Vatican and the Red Flag: the Struggle for the Soul of Eastern ... by Stove, R.J. / National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
Manuel Azana, president of the second Republic, favoured a state system, lest the continued existence of private schools, especially those operated by the Church, contribute to the subversion of the modern State by undermining its democratic and secular values.
Historia Patria by LoGerfo, James / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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