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...business and great affairs like the Marquis de Urquito. Although he has been a Deputy and Senator in the now defunct Cortes, the Duke has never held states- manly office or high military rank, is primarily a crony of the King and like him addicted to Biarritz, Deauville, St. Moritz. Doubtless Primo was more afraid of offending Alba, last week, than seriously perturbed lest the dilettante Duke seek executive Power...
Hugh Simons Gibson, Ambassador to Belgium, overworked by disarmament negotiations for his good friend, the President of the U. S., quit his post, went to Biarritz for a month's rest...
...Biarritz, France...
Today not a single king or emperor is acclaimed "The Great." How many want to be? Are any trying for the title? Last week as Spain's lively, cavaliering Alfonso XIII sunbasked at smart Biarritz, he tossed a sort of answer to pert Coralie van Paassen, of the New York Evening World. "If it could be done," smiled His Majesty, "I would like to follow the example of the Russian Tsar Peter the Great...
Tsar Peter, perhaps to spare his son, the Tsarevitch Alexius, such pangs of doubt, had the boy murdered. He also decapitated one of his mistresses, Mary Hamilton, and delivered an anatomical lecture on her head. Withal, savage Peter was called "The Great." Last week on the white sands at Biarritz it remained incumbent upon Spain's fashionably tanned Alfonso XIII to state clearly which of Peter I's gargantuan examples he would like to follow "if it could be done...