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...popped from the trees in the Retiro, Madrid's sprawling city park. Gaping crowds spread over the lawns to watch pinwheels swoosh round, rockets sizzle high into the sky. It was the eve of the first birthday of Spain's Republic, the anniversary of the day Alfonso XIII fled from his country. Airplanes dropped 50,000 little red, yellow and purple parachutes; there were gala football matches and bullfights. Pink with pleasure, tousle-haired President Niceto Alcala Zamora reviewed 10,000 troops in the Castellana avenue, presided over a lunch to the diplomatic corps. He was too excited...
Subsidiary fiestas were held by the Spanish colonies in Mexico and Cuba. In Fontainebleau, Alfonso XIII & family spent the day playing golf, made no public remarks on the proceedings in Madrid...
Celebration of Maundy Thursday was not limited to King George. In the Vatican Pope Pius washed the feet of twelve foreign priests. Most Italian priests per: formed a pedilavium in their own dioceses. In Fontainebleau Alfonso XIII announced that for the first time since his coronation he would wash no feet. Said he: "Because I am on French soil, I will observe Easter in accordance with French customs, attending Church as a simple worshiper...
...Alfonso XIII, outcast King of Spain, returned to France after a tour of the Holy Land without passport or papers of identity. Only in Germany was he halted. Don Alfonso crushed the Zollinspektor by shouting: "Look here, my man, I am an admiral in your navy, a general in your cavalry, a colonel in the Uhlans and I demand your salute...
Fuad, a British puppet, knows that Don Alfonso's wife (who was not reported with him last week) is in her own right a British Princess. In ordering "royal honors" for Alfonso, Puppet Fuad perhaps thought he was being smart, pleasing the British...