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What is one salute more or less? In Spain, to the man of honor, honor is all. Soon King Alfonso, the only living monarch who was born a king, abdicated with honor. He and his family prepared to leave Madrid for Paris, then London, which to Her Majesty is "home," and where the Royal Family have cool millions banked...
...jawed Alfonso XIII, whom even his enemies admit is the most astute politician in Spain, had no intention of selling his country to the U. S.; but no monarch in Europe is more amiable to U. S. citizens or has a livelier interest in their country. Whether he means it or not, he is constantly telling interviewers of his desire to visit the U. S. "If I don't visit America soon," said he to correspondents month ago, "I will be too old to be decorative." (He is 44.) The U. S. is interested in Alfonso...
Goya lived in a revolutionary time, when Spain, under the rule of a weak monarch, Charles IV, was the prey of stronger countries. The revolutionary movement sweeping through his country influenced him to start an independent school. Resulting from this turning point are his series of the Disasters of War, Caprices, and Proverbs, all of which are well represented in the Fogg Museum display. Another series is that of the Bull-fight drawings, which show well his tendency towards movement rather than form. It is this character that shows him as the originator, along with his countryman, El Greco...
Similarly most kings make it a policy to pardon men for attempting their lives, when they would never think of pardoning them for attempting citizens' lives. The monarch hopes he will be thought "magnanimous," dare not be thought "vengeful...
...oaths of allegiance which will bind to him the bodies, minds and souls of his new Cabinet. Beneath the crucifix lies a Bible. Upon it swear Prime Minister Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar y Cabanas and, one by one, all the rest. Thus last week King Alfonso XIII, last absolute monarch in western Europe, switched back into the vein of dictatorship-this time with a salt-sea flavor. In receiving the oaths of his two military dictators (the late General Primo de Rivera and his successor General Berenguer), blue-jawed Alfonso always wore the uniform of a field marshal. Smart King...