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They then tore down a huge picture of King Alfonso, and ripped it to tatters, hoisted the red flag, and attempted to organize a parade down Barcelona's broad boulevards. Police beat them back with the flats of their sabres...
Royal Coup. Despite Republican riots, judicious observers felt that His Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII had immeasurably strengthened his own position in the past fortnight. After swearing in the strong Royalist cabinet of Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar (TIME, March 2), Alfonso went to Great Britain to visit his ailing mother-in-law, Princess Beatrice. He realized that Spain's most immediate problem was not Republicanism, which like the poor he has always with him, but the parlous state of the Spanish peseta, which since the Dictatorship of the late Primo de Rivera has slumped from 5.89 to 10.66 to the dollar...
Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York, two inspectors of police, several sergeants, 30 uniformed constables and unnumbered plain clothes men met Spain's King Alfonso XIII in Victoria Station, warmly welcomed him to England. To foil any would-be bombers, Alfonso's coach had been secretly detached from "The Golden Arrow," speedy coast-to-London express, at Ashford, Kent, and arrived eight minutes later at a different, securely barricaded platform...
Sirs: Anent babies born kings, of whom you mentioned (TIME, Jan. 19) Alfonso XIII, and learned reader Noss recalled (TIME, Feb. 9) Sassanid Shapur II (310-379 A. D.): add a third, more amazing than the others, the son of Alexander the Great. There is no need to remind your readers that Alexander had married an Asiatic mountain princess, Roxane. Little known, however, is their son, born after Alexander's death in 323 B. C. Emperor of the better half of the known world, a position he shared with Alexander's halfbrother, the half-wit Philip Arrhidaeus...
...about to hear the oaths of allegiance which will bind to him the bodies, minds and souls of his new Cabinet. Beneath the crucifix lies a Bible. Upon it swear Prime Minister Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar y Cabanas and, one by one, all the rest. Thus last week King Alfonso XIII, last absolute monarch in western Europe, switched back into the vein of dictatorship-this time with a salt-sea flavor. In receiving the oaths of his two military dictators (the late General Primo de Rivera and his successor General Berenguer), blue-jawed Alfonso always wore the uniform...