Word: monarchism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shining with full splendor upon the sea which surrounds the Scilly Isles, a flight of airplanes soared into the air from their seagoing carriers. For several miles they whirred their way through the morning stillness to a spot where H. M. S. Monarch bobbed like a bottle on the rippling swell. As each machine passed over, a large, fat bomb was dropped; for the Monarch was to be sunk in accordance with the terms of the Washington Arms Treaty...
...will go to Rome where Princesses Mafalda, Giovanna and Maria grace their royal father's court. Unfortunately, the affections of Princess Mafalda (aged 22) are reported elsewhere engaged, while Princess Giovanna is but 17 and Princess Maria is just turned ten. From the Eternal City, the Bulgarian Monarch will travel to Paris, where is a fair sprinkling of comely princesses from the exiled houses of dethroned sovereigns. But, allegedly, he is not interested in the daughters of crownless heads. So will he depart to England, which for him will be a barren land...
Moreover, sports were little understood in Spain, especially at this period of her history; and the fact that her monarch was devoted to polo, fond of riding, shooting, yachting, motoring? because, in fact, he was an all-round sportsman?the people suspected that all was not well with him. El juego sportivo?that was not for Spaniards. Indeed, the king's star was not in the ascendant...
From the first day of the War, the King showed that he was wholeheartedly on the side of the Allies. Although he vigorously maintained, as Monarch, a proper attitude of neutrality, he personally went farther in assisting the Allies than did any other neutral sovereign. His first act was to assure France through his Government that there was no need to maintain a large Army on the Franco-Spanish frontier. The French relied upon his assurances and transferred no less than three army corps from the Pyrenees to the battlefields of northern France. More signal proof of his attachment...
...present year, the 39th of Alfonso's reign and age, this tall, slight man with the ready smile?gay, brave to the point of recklessness, with features in no wise handsome, but none the less attractive?is in reality a monarch beloved by his people. Much more than his embittered enemies may he be called a democrat of Spain. Hard-worker, severely earnest in fulfilling his responsibilities, unusually tactful and liberal-minded, rapid and accurate in his decisions, he combines to a high degree of perfection those qualities of intellect for which he has earned recognition...