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...free, amorous, impetuous man. His government hoped he could persuade impoverished Spain to sell Cuba to the United States-a deal that could be put through only by a stable, efficient Spanish government. To get advice, Sickles promptly visited Spain's recently deposed Queen Isabella, whose son, Alfonso, aspired to the shaky throne...
...Pilar Carlos Manuel Fitz-James Stuart is more familiarly known as the Duke of Alba and Berwick. Six times a duke, twelve times a marquis, 17 times a count and 15 times a grandee of Spain, the brittle old (66) blueblood was once a close friend of the late Alfonso XIII. Last week he resigned as Spain's Ambassador in London. This desertion of the shaky government of fat Francisco Franco came hard on the heels of the monarchist manifesto issued by the Spanish Pretender Don Juan (TIME, April 2). No one doubted that Alba-"Jimmie" to his British...
Aristocratic Whack. In his Swiss villa at Lausanne, handsome, non-hemophilic Don Juan Charles Teresa Silvere Alphonse, Prince of the Asturias, Count of Barcelona, and pretender to the throne vacated by his late father Alfonso XIII, judged the time ripe for a manifesto to the people. Proclaimed Don Juan...
Promptly, 42 suspects were seized. Three priests among them were released, but the police held fast to several retired military officers, two Cathedral sacristans, some lay brothers. All belonged to Colombia's small clerical fascist clique which drew the country's attention last summer when liberal President Alfonso Lopez was kidnapped...
Stephen A. Fischer-Galati '45, recently elected president, led the discussion which followed. Other officers who were elected early this month are Peter C. Cotzias '46, Membership Officer; Carlos de la M. Mendoza 1 P.A., Secretary; Pesi R. Masani 4G, Member in Charge of Forms; and Alfonso SantaCruz, Treasurer...