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...Jesting at the corpulence of ex-Queen Victoria Eugenie, Madrid's leading Socialist Daily El Socialista mocked last week: "But we hear from Mr. Bourbon [Alfonso XIII] that (in exile) the Queen is losing weight...
...Sweden and Siemens & Halske of Germany. Col. Behn cabled for a corps of U. S. engineers, accountants and typists, shut his troops in a hotel suite, sat up many a night writing newly modified contracts. After strenuous haggling that lasted nearly a year. Col. Behn obtained ex-King Alfonso's then valuable signature, and, consequently, a potent toehold on the Continent...
Thus people realized, last week, the unique continuity of Grand Inquisitor Torquemada's work in Spain. Queen Isabella was no more and possibly less pious than His Most Catholic Majesty King Alfonso XIII, now ousted (TIME, April 27). In every crisis Alfonso XIII turned for intercession to the Holy Virgin. When a Cabinet was sworn in by His Majesty it was always before the Crucifix and two twinkling candles (TIME, March 2). He never permitted Protestants to build places of worship in Spain in the form of a church or to advertise or indicate by any sign the places where...
When Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of George V, fell off his pony during a polo match at Roehampton. onetime King Alfonso of Spain quickly ran out on the field, helped carry him to the dressing rooms...
Engaged. The Infanta Beatriz Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugenia Cristina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladislaa, 21, daughter of King Alfonso XIII; and Don Alvaro Antonio Carlos Felipe Fernando of Orleans, 21, son of her father's cousin; at Fontainebleau, France...