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...Otto of Habsburg, 15, claimant to the Hungarian throne (TIME, Jan. 24). With him arrived his mother, Zita, one-time Hungarian Queen and Austrian Empress. They came from the little fishing village at Lequeitio, Spain, where Prince Otto has grown up in exile, tutored by monks, supported by King Alfonso XIII of Spain and the contributions of loyal Austro-Hungarian nobles. As Otto's impoverished little suite descended at the Luxembourg station, they were met by a half dozen open landeaux, bearing the arms of Luxembourg. Whips cracked, the landeaux rattled merrily down a long avenue and over...
Later the State Department at Washington announced that the only U. S. citizens on the train (all safe) were: "Alfonso Rosales, and Mr. & Mrs. Herman Dock...
Died. Marquis de Viana, Spanish Court Chamberlain, onetime Grand Master of the Horse; in Madrid. Last September he and King Alfonso dashed 300 miles by night in a motor over muddy country roads and dangerous mountain passes, to calm a threatened rebellion in Madrid, where twelve regiments of artillery had mutinied (TIME, Sept...
...with a fondness for ladies: "In demanding a rigid press censorship for Spain, I last week remarked: 'I have a number of vices and weaknesses which I never attempted to hide, but wine is not one of them.' Also, the news came out last week that King Alfonso will be unable to carry out the Holy Week custom of pardoning a murderer, for the simple reason that there is no one in Spain awaiting execution. It is well known that no one was executed last year and that crime has been considerably decreased during my premiership...
...King of Spain. (Alfonso XIII. He was born in 1886, six months after his father died...