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...once Finance Minister under Dictator Primo de Rivera and Alfonso XIII, followed his King into exile, returned to Spain under an amnesty of the Republic. He was taken from his home and butchered by uniformed members of the Government's own Assault Guards. Though these assassins admittedly acted without President Azana's knowledge, their crime showed that the most violent Left terrorism was now operating in the shadow of the Government itself. In Right opinion, the Republic had ceased to uphold republican order or republican rights and the first broadside issued by forces of the Revolution said they...
...enthusiastic assumption on the part of the local populace that it stood for restoration of the Monarchy. In charge of Seville, Generalissimo Franco had put General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, an officer so strongly Republican that he was forced to flee Spain during the reign of King Alfonso. Last week, although Generalissimo Franco had ordered all his forces to fly the flag of the Republic (which was the same as that flown by the Madrid Government they were fighting), General Queipo de Llano, as a matter of popular expediency, advised that King Alfonso's red, yellow...
Ignominiously back to France last week went Prince Juan, 23, youngest and healthiest of Alfonso XIII's sons, heir to the empty throne. Last fortnight he had rushed to Rebel General Mola to offer his services, was refused...
...this happened in a time of growing tension. The aged Marquis of Peral, in whose olive groves Caro and Mudarra worked, had taken less & less interest in his lands, turned them over to hard, thieving Argote, political boss in the days before Alfonso abdicated, who grafted, plotted, had Anarchist troublemakers killed. When the olive-pickers stormed the groves in a dispute about wages, the punishment was drastic: 80 men were arrested by the Civil Guard. When a protest meeting was held it was fired on, and 24 were killed. The aged Marquis woke up too late to a realization...
Born. To Don Juan Carlos, Prince of Asturias, 23, youngest living son of Spain's onetime King Alfonso XIII; and Princess Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily, 25; an 8-lb. daughter; in Cannes, France. Name: Maria del Pilar...