Word: alfonso
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...What is this I have seen in the newspapers about a circular telegram from you to the Captains General?" asks His Majesty King Alfonso...
...Dictator for Old. It lay in the power of King Alfonso to restore Spain to a Constitutional regime. He might have asked the advice of political leaders ? as George V and all other Constitutional sovereigns do ? before naming a new Prime Minister. He did not. Deliberately His Majesty continued the system of government called Dictature, ignored the will of the people, angled for the "confidence" of the Army and Captains General exactly as the fallen Dictator had done, and gave Spain for her new Dictator "just another general...
...Informal visit to His Majesty to admit the "error" and submit the resignation, both verbally. Responding verbally King Alfonso accepts the resignation, promises the Dictator to divulge nothing of what has passed, thus allowing Primo de Rivera to make the formal announcement...
...full uniform ablaze with medals Don Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marques de Estella, Duque de Ajdir, Grandee of Spain, Prime Minister, arrives at the Royal Palace and is formally received by His Most Catholic Majesty, Alfonso XIII, by the Grace of God King of Spain...
...General Primo de Riyera joined the rank and file of erstwhile dictators yesterday, 200 students were incarcerated for their boisterous exuberance at the restoration of kingly power. Neither Alfonso's refusal to continue as a figurehead in these enlightened times of complete suffrage, nor the machinations of the Army as a political boss have occasioned more press comment in Spain's latest cabal than this violent outburst of joy from the halls of higher learning...