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...Alfonso XIII, then King of Spain, awarded 10,000 sq. mi. to Honduras as umpire in that country's land squabble with Nicaragua. During the past two years both countries have been engaged in a battle of postage stamps bearing maps showing the disputed territory as part of their own domain. Last week the U. S. Government found Nicaraguan and Honduran passions running so high that with Costa Rica and Venezuela it offered its "good offices" to mediate. This offer both little states promptly accepted, slimming chances of any clash. Onetime Nicaraguan President José Maria Moncada denied...
...Renovation Española, a small and rather discouraged group of royalists who want the return of Alfonso XIII or at least Prince Juan, healthiest of his children...
...Mission by its present pastor, Father Michael O'Connell. Father Augustine spoke on Fray Junipero's holy life, argued his sanctity. A wreath was laid on his refurbished grave by Excelentisima Maria Antonia Field, descendant of California grandees who was given her title in 1931 by King Alfonso XIII for her work in preserving Spanish California's historical buildings and records. Fray Junipero's cell, restored to look as it did when he prayed, read his missal and scourged himself with a chain therein, was dedicated as a shrine. A handful of Indians, descendants of those...
Most embarrassing of all Generalissimo Francisco Franco's followers is the famed "Radio General," hoarse-voiced, bibulous General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, commander of the Rightist southern armies. Once such an ardent Republican that he was exiled by Alfonso XIII, Queipo de Llano quickly turned to fascism, was an active leader in the present civil war when Francisco Franco was still in Morocco. A violent self-advertiser, Queipo de Llano's frequent personal broadcasts have become one of the high spots of the war. When his language grows too indiscreet his own electricians sometimes...
Married. Don Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, 30, invalid onetime heir to the throne of Spain; to Marta Rocafort, handsome daughter of a Havana dentist; in Havana...