Word: alfonso
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Republican agitators shouted through the land that "Alfonso has sold the country to the Americans...
...jawed Alfonso XIII, whom even his enemies admit is the most astute politician in Spain, had no intention of selling his country to the U. S.; but no monarch in Europe is more amiable to U. S. citizens or has a livelier interest in their country. Whether he means it or not, he is constantly telling interviewers of his desire to visit the U. S. "If I don't visit America soon," said he to correspondents month ago, "I will be too old to be decorative." (He is 44.) The U. S. is interested in Alfonso...
...most reactionary in Europe?both Habsburg and Bourbon. He married a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. His son & heir suffered for years from haemophilia (easy bleeding), was never expected to live for the succession, but is now apparently cured. Graven on the public mind is the fact that Alfonso plays polo a great deal, likes gunning and sailing, drives an automobile very fast...
...quite so well known is the fact that Alfonso XIII is a fatalist with a great deal of personal courage and a macabre sense of humor. His pride is his private collection of objects which have been used in attempts to assassinate him. In neat glass cases are the poisoned feeding bottle which nearly did him in before he was a year old; a stone on which he nearly split his head as a boy; an assassin's rusty knife; the skeleton of the horse that was killed by a bomb in Paris as he drove with President Loubet...
...Alfonso's interest in the U. S. is not limited to remarking that he wished he could go there. Often he plays polo with or against U. S. citizens on his own fields in Madrid and Santander, or at Biarritz, Deauville, sometimes Ranelagh. In 1928 he gave a cup for a transatlantic sailing race from the U. S. to Santander. He gave the King of Spain Trophy for annual competition in the eight-metre class held in U. S. waters. Alfonso's admiration for U. S. businessmen (he profited handsomely from the late Ambassador Alexander Pollock Moore's advice...