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Roars of monarchist applause followed. News of the Count's outburst was rigidly censored out of Spanish papers next day, and in his palace Alfonso XIII must have felt increasingly alone?for Count de Romanones has long been His Majesty's close, trusted friend...
Having spanked his Air Force, shrewd Alfonso XIII curried favor with his Army, raised the pay of lieutenants 25%, generals 10%, other ranks in intermediate proportion...
...father, Alfonso XII, died six months before Alfonso XIII was born...
Foreign Affairs. Cubans take little or no interest in British, French, German or Italian affairs, were passionately concerned last week about whether King Alfonso XIII is soon to be dethroned and a Spanish republic proclaimed. Edward of Wales will shortly arrive in Havana, but Cuban newspapers (until suppressed last week) were apathetic toward H. R. H., unstirred even by red-hot British despatches that Edward of Wales' Argentine tango is now almost perfect...
...mighty interpretation of the will of God, a 16,000-word encyclical addressed to his flocks, to the Knightly and the benighted. Its opening words: Casti Connubii ("Of Chaste Wedlock"). Justly did the Catholic world regard it of utmost importance. It was the first encyclical on marriage since Leo XIII delivered himself 50 years ago. It expounded the Church's entire attitude on the connubial life. Its preparation involved a score of Vatican Scholars. Its Latin text, edited and approved by the Pope, was, for the first time in papal history, immediately issued in English, Italian, French, German, Spanish...