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...paunchy Dictator indeed had reason to worry last week. Unmentioned in his catalog of opponents was the not inconsiderable figure of King Alfonso. For years the King has been less than lukewarm to the dictatorship, continually giving awkward hints of a return to parliamentary government "as soon as conditions warrant." A month ago Madrid cafes buzzed with gossip that the King was about to demand the resignation of Dictator Primo de Rivera as Prime Minister and appoint that elegant grandee, the Duke of Alba, in his place (TIME, Dec. 2). Dictator Primo de Rivera quashed the rumor, sternly announced that...
...Charlotte Sophie Amelie Henriette Gabrielle de Saxe-Coburg-et-Gotha, Princess of Belgium, 23; at Rome, by His Eminence Pietro Cardinal Maffi, in the presence of the Kings of Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Bulgaria, the Prince of Monaco, the infante Fernando of Spain representing his brother-in-law King Alfonso XIII of Spain, and the Duke of York representing the King-Emperor George V. In token of great gladness King Vittorio Emanuele ordered 6,000 Italian criminals pardoned and let out of jail; gave 10,000 pairs of shoes to the poor; distributed lesser alms to 400,000. All objects deposited...
Later Lady Chamberlain went to Rome to discuss plans with the Premier, to get his official consent to remove the pictures. In Germanv she enlisted the aid of then Chancellor Stresemann, in Spain she talked with King Alfonso. Sir Joseph Duveen arranged for U. S. loans...
...King Alfonso XIII seldom visits Barcelona, though it is one of Spain's important cities and he has there a sumptuous palace with a plenitude of peacocks. He avoids it because the Catalans, no lovers of the monarchy, think nothing of regicide and occasionally throw bombs at royal persons. They are revolutionaries to a man and their principal city is a fester of social and political unrest. José de Creeft, sculptor, is no exception. Born in Guadalajara, he studied in Barcelona and has been an art-rebel since his early days. He shocked and amused Paris with...
Aguilar Lutes. Some years ago a Spanish gentleman, by name Don Francisco Aguilar, was returning home after one of his days spent as royal physician at the Court of young King Alfonso. Passing through one of Madrid's ancient, crooked streets in the still twilight, he stopped to listen to a blind musician. The man's face was tinted and seamed like a Rembrandt burgomaster's. The instrument on which he played was even more unusual. Most people would have called it an outlandish guitar or mandolin. But Don Francisco, cultivated, scholarly, knew it for a lute...