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...Committee recommended that Alfonso XIII be stripped of all his titles & possessions in Spain and endure "perpetual imprisonment in case he steps upon Spanish territory...
...upon him. Historians disagree upon this point. Last week Count de Romanones furnished historians with a telegram. Dated Sept. 14, 1923, addressed to the King and signed by General Primo de Rivera, it harangued His Most Catholic Majesty in threatening terms. Count de Romanones argued that this telegram "intimidated" Alfonso XIII into accepting the Dictatorship...
From a legal standpoint the telegram, if genuine, was interesting. But to read it to a National Assembly was an old man's folly. By excusing the Thirteenth Alfonso as "timid," loyal old Count de Romanones sealed such doom as Spain's National Assembly could inflict...
Asked what he meant by this curious statement, Count de Romanones said in effect that Alfonso XIII can ignore all parts of the National Assembly's sentence except that which deprives him of property worth $10,000,000 in Spain...
...Spanish peseta, still stamped with the portrait of Alfonso XIII, slumped last week to a new low for all time: 11.56 pesetas to the dollar (at par 5.18 pesetas equal...