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...British loan for reconstruction purposes was in the offing for Rebel Spain on condition of good behavior. The British, sentimental about kings and queens, were unofficially advancing the cause of a restoration of the Spanish monarchy. They were said to favor putting Juan, Alfonso XIII's second surviving son, on the throne because: 1) he had a British mother (former Queen Victoria); 2) he was educated in the British Navy...
Seen off at Paris by José Maria Quiñones de LeÓn, unofficial agent of Rebel Spain in France and longtime Ambassador to France of King Alfonso XIII, M. Berard would say only that he was going to Burgos to "settle some questions with good neighbors." Obviously referring to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement trips, he pointed slyly to an umbrella he was carrying, called it "standard equipment on the kind of trip I am making...
Former King Alfonso XIII of Spain last week had the curious but pleasant sensation of becoming a citizen of his native country. He was made so by a decree of Generalissimo Francisco Franco himself. To the 52-year-old Alfonso, now living in Italy, were restored (so far as Insurgent Spain could do so) the rights he lost after he fled the country in 1931 and was "tried" in absentia before the Republic's Parliament. The Republic found him guilty of high treason, confiscated his properties, ordered his immediate arrest should he ever be caught in Spain again...
Meanwhile Don Alfonso, last of Spain's Bourbon monarchs, having prudently invested tens of millions of pesetas in foreign bonds and stocks while he sat upon Spain's throne, did not go hungry in exile. Citizen Bourbon will regain little now save two homes, one on the fashionable beach at San Sebastian, another at Santander (both in Rightist Spain). Should the Rebels take Madrid he would again become the owner of seven partly damaged business buildings there, upping his total recovery of property to about $3,500,000. The crown properties (castles, palaces, etc.) are still considered State...
Several years ago Adolf Hitler asked the world's greatest otolaryngologist, Professor Heinrich von Neumann of Vienna, to examine his larynx. Dr. von Neumann had as patients and friends England's George VI and Duke of Windsor, Spain's Alfonso, Rumania's Carol, Greece's George, Austria's late Emperor Charles. But he is an orthodox Jew and he turned Hitler down. Last spring, when Hitler entered Austria, Dr. von Neumann was imprisoned and released upon the plea of the Duke of Windsor...