Blasco Ibanez prosecuted at the request of the Spanish government!

The Spanish ambassador, Mr. Quinones de Leon, has, at the request of his government, filed a complaint against the Spanish writer, Blasco Ibanez, author of the pamphlet "Alfonso XIII unmasked", a complaint that the French government had to receive, if we dare say so, mechanically, because the law of 1880 targets the offense of insults to foreign sovereigns committed on the territory of the Republic. It is by virtue of this law that the Ministry of Justice, notified, appointed Mr. Bacquart, investigating judge, to follow up on the complaint of the Spanish government.

The Spanish writer, currently in Menton, has not yet been affected by Mr. Bacquart's summons. We must therefore not dramatize this affair in any way. The law of 1880 is perhaps "brutal", even villainous, as they used to say in the past, but, alas! it is the law. This explains the prosecutions.

At the same time as the complaint of the Spanish ambassador in France was transmitted to the government, the same complaints were filed, targeting the same facts, in the hands of the English and American governments, countries where Blasco-Ibanez's book appeared at the same time as in France and Spain.

English and American laws do not contain the case of "insults on national territory to foreign sovereigns".

The Blasco-Ibanez case does not often "play" in France, the last kings not taking care of their external "publicity", but the Spanish dictator, Primo de Rivera, who forgets all Spanish laws, needed, need, to support his bad cause, to know the law of 1880, and he plays on it.