Word: marquese
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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His Excellency Alfonso, Marques de Merry del Val,* Spanish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Chamberlain to King Alfonso of Spain, irate, took up his pen, wrote to the Sphere, London illustrated weekly, denied that Spain is decadent; answered an "arrant tissue of airy inventions" made previously in...
The Marques de Merry del Val, white-haired and aristocratic, took umbrage at certain statements made by the "disreputable politician and brilliant novelist," one of which was that: "Spain is exactly as it has been for over three years, there is no outward change of any kind . . . it deteriorates." Penning...
Other charges made by the Ambassador: organization of "murderous nocturnal combats" to further his political ambitions: "shameful" desertion of a group of "honest, sturdy peasants" in Argentina, whence he had taken them, and the failure of a bank that guaranteed his emigration scheme. Continued the Marques:
Fire When Ready. A few days later, after midnight on May 1, seven big battleships made white scratches on the still dark surface of Manila Bay in the Philippines. A few rockets and cannon broke cover from the high sides of the bay, but in the morning all seven battleships...
Finance Minister, Joseph Caillaux; rapporteur of the Senate Finance Committee, Henry Berenger; rapporteur of the Budget of the Chamber of Deputies, Lucien Lamoreux; Deputies, Maurice Bokanowski, Franklin-Bouillon, Vincent Auriol, Marques de Chambrun. The experts attached to the mission include Joseph Simon (Director of the Societe General, large Paris bank...