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...finds it in an impoverished and degenerate state. His wife, Luisa, is a spiritualist; Amelia, his young daughter, is a Catholic bigot; his elder son, Pedro, is a black marketeer, pimp, and Falangist; and his younger son, Juan, is a Communist. Don Antolin is a socialist and a liberal, which makes it difficult for him to fit into the surly, squabbling family which has resented his absence for the past dozen years. All four feel that things would have gene much better had he not fled. Each sees his return only as a means to exploit him for a selfish...
Clear Crystal. In Milwaukee, after Spiritualist Irene H. Pike assured Geraldine Sampon that "You will be involved in a legal matter," Miss Sampon revealed herself as a policewoman, charged Mrs. Pike with fortunetelling for profit...
...duchess went on to name some of the mediums King consulted in Britain and the U.S., and said that King stood 53 high in spiritualist circles in both countries that he once served as an international go-between. An engraved gold watch given by Queen Victoria to a British spiritualist "in acknowledgment of benefits received from mediumship" had found its way to the U.S. Mackenzie King was chosen as the intermediary to return the watch to England, where it was turned over to the London Spiritualist Alliance...
There could be no doubt of King's faith in spiritualist guidance, the duchess insisted; he tried constantly to "see the vision." His only reason for keeping his spiritualist activities a secret was because "in his official capacity he couldn't allow it to be too well known...
Firm Belief. King's secret was indeed so well kept that his closest associates in Ottawa last week were unable either to confirm or deny that he was a practicing spiritualist. Some of them knew that King attended seances in London and Paris, but they attributed his curiosity to his religious nature and his firm belief in life after death. None of them could say whether, in the privacy of his study, Mackenzie King actually tried to communicate with his dead mother or whether his spiritualist experiments had any effect upon his conduct of the country's affairs...