Jilt

General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, 58, Prime Minister and Dictator of Spain, thoroughly jilted, last week, his 47-year-old fiancee (TIME, May 14) the Senorita Mercedes Castellanos, rich, vivacious, superbly preserved.

Dictator de Rivera, who has now convalesced from a short illness, issued at Madrid last week a brief statement that his engagement is at an end. It contained the allegation that the Senorita Mercedes Castellanos has recently been seen on the Stock Exchange making purchases in company with the Duke of Almodovalhe and Count Cimera. Such conduct, says the communique, was "imprudent and inexplicable."

Only a few hours before the issuance of this jilt direct, the Senorita Mercedes Castellanos had informed reporters that she was on the point of leaving Madrid for Paris to superintend the completion of her trousseau.

Finally the Dictator spiked rumors that he plans to retire, and stated that he would advise King Alfonso XIII to leave the present Dictature unchanged in office for at least two years.

Widower de Rivera, who has two children, said, during the brief period of his engagement: "Although I am by no means a youth, my character is still joyous. I feel that I am in need of a domestic life."