The election of 16 February 1936 returned Azaña to power at the head of a government consisting entirely of non-Socialist Republicans and pledged to execute the Popular Front's minimum programme. Rumours of a military coup intended to annul the election were unfulfilled but not groundless. Calvo Sotelo and other worried rightists considered such a move and even approached Franco, but the plans foundered through lack of wide enough civilian support and the refusal of Portela and Alcalá Zamora to countenance them. The Carlists, who had their own ideas as to how and when to use violence, also stood aside. They were, however, perfectly clear in their own minds as to the significance of Azaña's return to office: it represented the first important stage in the realization of their preelection prophecies of revolution, a new offensive, as El Siglo Futuro put it, on the part of international communism and freemasonry. Azaña, they were sure, would soon be brushed aside by the far more radical forces currently to be seen and heard parading in victory demonstrations ominously different from those of 1931. According to Rodezno, Spain was ‘in a pre-revolutionary period’ to make matters worse, revolution when it came would not even be homegrown, but planned to the last detail by Moscow and financed by the Jews. The living incarnation of this deadly combination, Bela Kun, was persistently but falsely rumoured to be touring Spain's cities as the Comintern's revolutionary co-ordinator.