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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German superincendiary thermite bombs on its roof last week, but after sizzling according to specifications "with a heat greater than that of molten iron," they finally sizzled out without setting fire. Downstairs the tall, sleek president of I. T. & T., Lieut.-Colonel Sosthenes Behn, an acquaintance of absent Alfonso XIII, remained very much present in Madrid, where he has chosen to stay during the whole of Spain's present civil war. Scores of panic-stricken Madrid mothers decided that, even though Colonel Behn's building seemed to be a target for White bombs, it also seemed able...
...staff. Other shells plunked into the famed Oriental Café in the Puerta del Sol, heart of Madrid. The Ministry of Interior, police headquarters and the French Embassy were all barely missed by screaming shells, but a small one landed in the onetime Royal Palace of Alfonso XIII, now the Palace of the President. Don Manuel Azaña, who fled last month not to Valencia but to Barcelona (TIME...
...Switzerland up swelled last week the leg of Don Juan, Prince of the Asturias, claimant to the vacant Spanish Throne after his ousted father King Alfonso XIII. As to what was the matter an expensive galaxy of specialists violently disagreed. Some said Don Juan had elephantiasis, others that he is contracting hemophilia, the dread Bourbon scourge...
First arbiter in this dispute involving 40,000 square miles of territory was Spain's King Alfonso XIII in 1910. He soon admitted that the problem was too difficult for him, suggested "direct negotiations" between the two Republics. After much wrangling they agreed to confer in 1924, pledged themselves to submit to the U. S. President issues on which they could not agree. Now 12 years after this agreement, they have got as far as the White House...
...another White army under Colonel Juan Yague captured the former Red Militia General Staff Headquarters at Santa Olalla after savage bayonet fighting. At this the Madrid Government nervously issued what sounded like a desperate last-stand proclamation, calling "all citizens to the colors!" In Milan. Italy, ousted King Alfonso XIII of Spain popped into the Italian Royal Automobile Club, hopefully bought a set of Spanish road maps while his queen Victoria Eugenic was on sad business in Manhattan...