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Pretenders & Princes. Spain's Pretender is Don Juan, 32, youngest surviving son of the late King Alfonso XIII, but there is no love lost between the Pretender and the Generalissimo. In Lausanne...
...Patiño married, the son of Bolivia's tin tycoon became the husband of one of the best-dressed women in Europe: the stately Cristina, daughter of the Duke and Duchess de Durcal. He also became the nephew-in-law of Spain's late King Alfonso XIII...
Phrases and concepts were borrowed from all over. The old League of Nations preamble was there with "international peace and security." The Kellogg Pact had its echoes. There were Lincoln's "scourge of war" and Pope Leo XIII's "dignity of man." And there were fainter, but recognizable, traces of the Kuomintang party platform and of the Soviet Constitution...
...Salvatore Cortesi, now living in retirement in Florence, gave the A.P. a world beat on the death of Pope Leo XIII in 1903. But he is best remembered by the A.P. for the character references he gave to an American surety company: "Giuseppe Sarto - Occupation: Pope; Victor Emmanuel - Occupation: King...
...Carlos Manuel Fitz-James Stuart is more familiarly known as the Duke of Alba and Berwick. Six times a duke, twelve times a marquis, 17 times a count and 15 times a grandee of Spain, the brittle old (66) blueblood was once a close friend of the late Alfonso XIII. Last week he resigned as Spain's Ambassador in London. This desertion of the shaky government of fat Francisco Franco came hard on the heels of the monarchist manifesto issued by the Spanish Pretender Don Juan (TIME, April 2). No one doubted that Alba-"Jimmie" to his British friends...