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...once Finance Minister under Dictator Primo de Rivera and Alfonso XIII, followed his King into exile, returned to Spain under an amnesty of the Republic. He was taken from his home and butchered by uniformed members of the Government's own Assault Guards. Though these assassins admittedly acted without President Azana's knowledge, their crime showed that the most violent Left terrorism was now operating in the shadow of the Government itself. In Right opinion, the Republic had ceased to uphold republican order or republican rights and the first broadside issued by forces of the Revolution said they...
Ignominiously back to France last week went Prince Juan, 23, youngest and healthiest of Alfonso XIII's sons, heir to the empty throne. Last fortnight he had rushed to Rebel General Mola to offer his services, was refused...
...Well-known is the difficulty Italian prelates experience with English and Irish names. The late great James Cardinal Gibbons used to tell how Pope Leo XIII called him "Jibbons...
...Revolution. While Frenchmen assume that of course a foreigner is lucky to be in France at any price, Spaniards haughtily consider the tourist a fool for not staying at home. Greatest Spanish feat along this line was to build at stupendous cost in the days of King Alfonso XIII the finest network of concrete roads outside the U. S. and then omit to spend the few additional millions on advertising which would have made them teem with tourist cars. His Majesty personally did more to encourage tourists than has any other King or Emperor, would stop and shake hands with...
Born. To Don Juan Carlos, Prince of Asturias, 23, youngest living son of Spain's onetime King Alfonso XIII; and Princess Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily, 25; an 8-lb. daughter; in Cannes, France. Name: Maria del Pilar...