Source: File: King Alfonso XIII of Spain.
jpeg, [online] Available at: <http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/king-alfonso-xiii-of-spain/>[Accessed: 4 December 2015].
With little or no
prior mention forthwith,
Came indication
of Spain's ongoing status,
In speech by
Prime minister Señor Dato,
The Country’s
Prime minster since 1913.
With variety of
stories having emerged
In the height of
summer, to divide party's
Of Spanish
politicians - under Dato the
Followers of neutral
conservatives varied.
Partisans and
government members
Sided with allied
sides, having shared
Ideals of a
communality - rather than
With Germany's
policy of invasions.
The liberal party
Dato had ousted,
Led by Count
Romanones, had been
Against
imperialism - to err on side
Of caution and to favour neutrality.
Divisions also
lay in the Spanish
Army - General
Echague, minster
Of war, forbid
public military talking
Over Europe’s war, in clubs or cafes.
The army youth
admired German
Emperor, while the
mature officers
Sided with France
and English ally -
Yet Belgium
sympathy dominated.
A June Spanish
crisis had seen
Oppositions, between Government
And army, with
cabinet resignation
To call a purge
within military abuses.
Don Eduardo Dato
had then formed
A cabinet, while
the prime minister
Refused to
provide a resignation, yet
King Alfonso
called for Señor Dato.
Onto December
1915; then respectful
Speech over
Spanish neutrality, by
Lord Cecil, prompted
positive reactions
Across the pro-ally
Spanish press.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915 Britain and Spain - Feeling in Madrid. The
Daily Telegraph, [online]
4
December. P.10. Col.5. Available
at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12025612/Daily-Telegraph-December-4-1915.html
[Accessed: 4 December 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 4 December 2015).
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