Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next the Assembly will tackle charges of high treason against fugitive King Alfonso XIII (he never abdicated) which were drafted last week by the Government Responsibility Commission. "If Alfonso does not return from France to face these charges," said Socialist Commissioner Jeronimo Bujeda, "we are prepared to declare him a fugitive from Justice. This Commission demands real prosecution and no farces...
...Vatican announced "the Holy Father was not surprised." A reaction, noted by correspondents in most Vatican clerics with whom they talked, was news: unofficially and without permitting quotation, Vatican authorities expressed the opinion that the act of disestablishment will lead to the restoration of His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII who, as the Vatican recalled, never abdicated but only fled from Spain (TIME, April...
Died. Don Jaime of Bourbon (Jaime Juan Carlos Alfonso Felipe de Bourbon-Anjou), 61, Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, cousin of deposed King Alfonso XIII; of a heart attack; in Pans...
When revolution broke in Brazil last October, U. S. Ambassador Edwin Vernon Morgan was on vacation (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.). When three revolutions in one week gripped Guatemala, U. S. Minister Sheldon Whitehouse was on vacation (TIME, Dec. 29, et seq.). When Alfonso XIII was driven from his throne, U. S. Ambassador Irwin Boyle Laughlin was out of town (TIME, April 20 et seq.). Last week U. S. Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes sailed for a vacation in the U. S. the day Japanese troops captured the Chinese city of Mukden...
Near Fontainebleau, France, onetime King Alfonso XIII of Spain saw a chateau for sale at $800,000, opened negotiations for it with an offer...