Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chore was royal, and it was the third which President Doumergue has had to do in as many weeks. First Spain's King Alfonso XIII came to say goodbye, then Albert King of the Belgians, and now Sweden's lank Gustaf V was at the door. All these kings no doubt meant well, but in their gracious goodbyes lurked an unintended sting, as though they said...
King by the Grace of God, His Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII suddenly found himself this week no longer King by the Will of the People. In the first election Spain has had for eight years the People hurled an avalanche of Republican ballots against the Crown...
Royal Coup. Despite Republican riots, judicious observers felt that His Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII had immeasurably strengthened his own position in the past fortnight. After swearing in the strong Royalist cabinet of Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar (TIME, March 2), Alfonso went to Great Britain to visit his ailing mother-in-law, Princess Beatrice. He realized that Spain's most immediate problem was not Republicanism, which like the poor he has always with him, but the parlous state of the Spanish peseta, which since the Dictatorship of the late Primo de Rivera has slumped from 5.89 to 10.66 to the dollar...
...jawed Alfonso XIII, whom even his enemies admit is the most astute politician in Spain, had no intention of selling his country to the U. S.; but no monarch in Europe is more amiable to U. S. citizens or has a livelier interest in their country. Whether he means it or not, he is constantly telling interviewers of his desire to visit the U. S. "If I don't visit America soon," said he to correspondents month ago, "I will be too old to be decorative." (He is 44.) The U. S. is interested in Alfonso...
...quite so well known is the fact that Alfonso XIII is a fatalist with a great deal of personal courage and a macabre sense of humor. His pride is his private collection of objects which have been used in attempts to assassinate him. In neat glass cases are the poisoned feeding bottle which nearly did him in before he was a year old; a stone on which he nearly split his head as a boy; an assassin's rusty knife; the skeleton of the horse that was killed by a bomb in Paris as he drove with President Loubet...