Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abdicate? In Paris on the same day ousted King Alfonso XIII returned home from a socialite hunt to find his residence full of stickling Spanish Royalists. These sticklers reminded "His Majesty" that he never abdicated but merely left Spain (TIME, April 27, 1931). They urged him to abdicate at once in favor of his son Juan "so that a manifesto can be issued urging all Spaniards to rally to the Throne...
Annoyed by this blunt suggestion that he is persona non grata even to Spanish Royalists in Paris, large-lipped Alfonso XIII dismissed them curtly, snapped. "There has been no development in the politics of my beloved Spain which would warrant such action...
...specific about the purpose of his visit, Premier Herriot said: "I come here only to salute the Spanish people in the name of France." Suspicious Italians were sure that his real purpose was to build a Socialist-Republican entente between France and Spain. Years ago, when Alfonso XIII was King and Primo de Rivera was Dictator in Madrid there used to be a Fascist-Royalist entente between Spain and Italy. Last week at San Sebastian smiling Mme Herriot was showered with bouquets in which were mingled the colors of the French and Spanish flags...
...family far from obscure. Of his four brothers, all dead. Joseph, John and Austin were physicians. Brother Austin, eight years Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame University, gained fame as a scientist and oculist. Also he was a Latin scholar, conducted voluminous correspondence with Popes Leo XIII and Benedict XV. Brother William was a naval captain. Frank began work as a smalltown newspaper cartoonist in Pennsylvania, quit when a mine foreman whom he had caricatured fell down a shaft and was killed...
...Italian History in the XIII Century," Professor Post, Fogg...