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Under this Charter, according to President Franco, his adherents are now in course of staging a Social Revolution, and he warned Spaniards of the old regime they are completely deceived if they think the Spain of Franco will be a repetition of the Spain of Alfonso XIII. According to Harold Callender, the New York Timesman present at the broadcast, the Generalissimo is trying to build a State "expected to be neither capitalistic nor socialistic, which will respect private property within limits, and which yet will be highly socialized...
Alan Little, instructor in Latin and Greek, will designs the sets, and Alfonso Ossorio '38 is the art director...
This effort to save five shillings ($1.25) blew up around His Majesty's Government last week a whirlwind of Labor charges that they have secretly recognized the Spanish Rightist Government. Alba, one of the very bluest-blooded grandees of Spain and one of the wealthiest under King Alfonso XIII, announced in regard to the affair: "It was a plot of the Reds, that...
...Madrid palace gleaming. Communist guides lead groups of peasants and proletarians about in the stately halls, lecturing as in the palaces at Leningrad and Moscow. Alba is a blood kinsman of Winston Churchill, discharges the duties of an ambassador in London, where both he and onetime King Alfonso XIII are objects of sympathy, occasionally get a friendly English cheer...
Among the Spanish Rightist parties which back the Franco Government are two royalist groups. Of these the Legitimists want to enthrone former King Alfonso XIII's third son Don Juan. The Carlists had as their candidate old Don Alfonso Carlos, who 65 years ago tried by an armed insurrection to seize the throne. When the new revolution broke out 18 months ago, he was 86. All he did was to order some 60,000 Carlists to fight under Generalissimo Franco while he sat tight in Vienna. Then one day he was killed by an automobile, and his second cousin...