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Viva, viva, magnanimo el Rey Alfonso...
...Alfonso trece, el Rey Alfonso trece...
Safe in Paris, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish novelist, published his much advertised attack upon the King of Spain (TIME, Oct. 20). In a pamphlet entitled Alfonso Unmasked, Ibanez accused the King of remaining "a precocious child, without becoming a man," of being lightheaded, a German spy during the War, the sole cause of the Moroccan disaster...
Miss Wyse explained that in the story Pedro's father, Alfonso the twelfth of Castle, had abandoned his wife and his child for another woman, and that Pedro had grown up in extreme poverty. The latent good in Pedro's character, especially during his formative years, was crushed by the revengeful temper of his mother, and the mean circumstances in which he was placed. The drama shows the great influence of Maria de Pedillia over Pedro, and his reaction...
...King Alfonso appointed Director Primo Rivera, Marquis d'Estella, High Commissioner of the Spanish Directorate in Morocco and Commander-in- Chief of the armies there. He remained head of the Military Directorate which rules from Madrid...