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...Press last week. He had just cabled U. S. Ambassador Irwin B. Laughlin at Madrid to call at Spain's Foreign Office, extend formal recognition to the new Republic (see p. 20). Ambassador Laughlin, he added, will remain at Madrid, though officially accredited to the Court of Alfonso XIII. He acknowledged that, before acting, the U. S. had waited to see what Great Britain and France were going...
...Niceto took this as a personal insult. He renounced the Dictatorship and King Alfonso to boot, pledged himself and his entire fortune to the Republican cause. Last December he was jailed as an instigator of the abortive Jaca revolution (TIME, Dec. 15). Released late in March, he became Provisional President of Spain three weeks later. World chancellories last week counted up the results of his first ten days in office...
Long-jawed Alfonso XIII, as the Duke of Toledo, was in London last week to the slight embarrassment of the Labor Government. As in Paris, crowds cheered his every appearance...
...first two days after the King's arrival in Paris half the exiled Royalty of Europe flocked to the hotel with messages of condolence. Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians called, so did ex-Empress Zita of Austria (Alfonso gave her refuge in Madrid after her downfall). So did Prince Nicholas of Greece, Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia. After a day hectic with worry, exhaustion and despair, word came up that Marie of Rumania was downstairs...
Maria Isabel. Almost forgotten by the press and people of Madrid, Alfonso's aged aunt the Infanta Maria Isabel of Spain was left behind in the Palace when the rest of the family fled. Ill and past 80 years old, looking almost exactly like the Duchess in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* she was not told of the revolution or of the flight of the family for fear the news would be too much for her. But the frenzy, the shouting in the streets reached even her tired ears...