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...wedding would unite two famed families of Pretenders. The bride-young and charming-was the daughter of the Infante Don Carlos (brother-in-law of the late King Alfonso), and first Spanish princess to be married in her native land since Spain went republican. The tall, mustachioed groom was the great-grandson of Dom Pedro II, second (and last) of Brazil's brief line of Portuguese emperors. When the second Dom Pedro abdicated the Brazilian throne in favor of a republic, his family lived in France until Brazil relented in 1920, welcomed home the house of Bragan...
Nothing quite like it had ever happened before in Ecuador. In a speech before the town council at Cuenca. Alfonso Pena Jaramillo attacked President José Maria Velasco Ibarra, was promptly jailed for showing "disrespect." Just as promptly, the President came to the rescue. Wired President Velasco to Critic Jaramillo: "You have perfect freedom to think, criticize and censure. You have been the victim of an abuse of which I protest as the President of a liberal country...
...Alfonso Lopez, President of Colombia, and hundreds of other Latin American subscribers received their copies of the Election Issue (printed in Bogotá) just one day later than subscribers in New York and Chicago. ¶ By the time you read this letter, the full election story will have galloped with TIME'S Pony Edition to our troops in Germany-flown with TIME'S Calcutta Edition to G.I.s deep in the jungles of Burma and India -reached interned U.S. airmen far in the north of Sweden through the pages of the Scandinavian Edition we print behind the German blockade...
...pretender had some solid grounds for hope-Don Juan of Bourbon, 31, only non-hemophilic son of Spain's late ex-King Alfonso XIII. From his Swiss villa on Lake Geneva, where he will stay until the skiing season opens, the Infante made it known that he was against "totalitarian policies," was "calmly and confidently" waiting for a call to Madrid. He had reason. Britain might right royally welcome a monarch in that bulwark of Empire, Spain...
President Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo, temporarily discommoded by something that tried to be a revolution, President Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo, temporarily discommoded by something that tried to be a revolution, returned to work in Bogota...