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Long-jawed Alfonso XIII of Spain listened last week in Seville, amid an imposing group of gold-braided notables, to a high-sounding address by Spain's Dictator General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. The dictator gesticulated, emphasized, smiled, scowled, pointed. To foreign ears it would have sounded like a declaration indeed, perhaps of grave warning, perhaps defiance. What the dictator was leading up to, however, was only this...
...preparation was of the simplest, involving only the removal of Queen Maria Christina's secular garments and the robing of her corpse in the habit of a nun, for King Alfonso absolutely forbade that the body should be embalmed. He also refused to permit the taking of the usual state photograph of the corpse...
...nine days after laying his mother to rest, His Majesty remained in his personal suite at the Palacio Real in Madrid, and would not allow any member of the Royal Family to leave the palace. Since he has emerged from these days of meditation and prayer, Alfonso de Bourbon has seemed listless and melancholic. Last week it was thought that General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera has found this royal mood a favorable one in which to induce the King to sign several more decrees strengthening the Rivera grip of iron on Spain...
Another significant development of last week was King Alfonso's flat refusal to receive a deputation of three former Prime Ministers,* who asked for an audience in order that they might jointly urge upon His Majesty "the imperative need for some modification of the dictatorship." They were informed by the palace majordomo, the Duque de Miranda, that "the King is loath to intervene in the present situation...
...Alfonso Fors, head of the.judicial police, announced that a plot had been discovered to assassinate General Gerardo Machado y Morales, President of the Cuban Republic since 1925, and to plunge the country in civil warfare with the idea of bringing about U. S. intervention. A certain Dr. Alejandro Vergara Leonard was named head of the conspiracy, and he and nine followers were arrested and flung into the grey, 18th century Castillo del Principe...