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Aristocratic Whack. In his Swiss villa at Lausanne, handsome, non-hemophilic Don Juan Charles Teresa Silvere Alphonse, Prince of the Asturias, Count of Barcelona, and pretender to the throne vacated by his late father Alfonso XIII, judged the time ripe for a manifesto to the people. Proclaimed Don Juan...
...Dempsey went to France with the 13th Infantry Brigade and took it out again over the Dunkirk beaches. In England he rose rapidly through command and staff posts, learning about tank warfare and amphibious operations. He got into the last stages of the Africa campaign commanding the XIII Corps (he considers 13 his lucky number), took it into Sicily and Italy, fought several highly successful and highly unpublicized actions on the Biferno and Sangro Rivers. Then he was called back to lead Britain's invasion army. Three weeks after Dday, he was knighted...
...repeated the words of Leo XIII's encyclical, "Libertas" (1888): "The Church does not disapprove of any of the various forms of government, provided they be per se capable of securing the good of the citizens...
...pretender had some solid grounds for hope-Don Juan of Bourbon, 31, only non-hemophilic son of Spain's late ex-King Alfonso XIII. From his Swiss villa on Lake Geneva, where he will stay until the skiing season opens, the Infante made it known that he was against "totalitarian policies," was "calmly and confidently" waiting for a call to Madrid. He had reason. Britain might right royally welcome a monarch in that bulwark of Empire, Spain...
...head, charged him with "not having said Mass for six years, of blaspheming, of not wearing long robes ... of fornication with his mustachioed old housekeeper." He disappeared for a year, reappeared briefly in Rome on a prancing white stallion to cast his vote in the election of Pope Innocent XIII. By then he was almost forgotten by the warring powers. At the age of 88, Alberoni died, leaving behind him a seminary for the education of indigent student priests, a plan for the federation of Europe...