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Born. To Jacobo, 10th Duke of Berwick, 17th Duke of Alba, Senator in the Spanish Cortes, 48, and Maria del Rosario de Silva y Gurtubay, Marquesa de San Vicente, 26, a daughter; at Madrid. The Duke is commonly referred to as the highest grandee in Spain. The retiring U. S. Ambassador to Spain, Mr. Moore, habitually addressed him not as "Jacobo" but as "Jimmy...
Columbia: Hertz, number 1, Ely number 2, and Fuertes, number 3. Silva is a substitute who will very probably see service...
Observers opined that only the actual arrival of Prince Hirohito prevented several untimely deaths. As the people fell back a dozen policemen seized Ambassador Silva, overpowered him, dragged him out of the way, while Senhora Silva screamed and kicked at them. The dog scuttled to cover...
...Japanese policeman waved them back. The tall swart man exclaimed impatiently, "I am the Brazilian Ambassador!" and strode on. Two policemen rushed up. Swiftly Ambassador R. de Lima Silva rapped one of them across the knuckles with his cane, and as the other still came on whacked him over the head. Then the crowd rushed him, his dog, his wife...
Amid shouts of "Banzai!" "Hail, Illustrious One!" "Greetings!" the Prince Regent proceeded unruffled on his way. Later Ambassador Silva explained that he thought the first policeman had said "Come, please" instead of "Comes Prince." Since the policeman's gesture made his intent clear, this explanation was considered very lame.* The Japanese Government was rumored to have entered an official protest against the "unwarranted tempestuousness" of the Ambassador...