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Within a period of a few hours Spanish Monarchists were thunderstruck by three despatches: 1) The rich and curvesome young Cuban wife of Spain's sickly one-time heir to the throne, Alfonso, who abdicated his rights to marry her, had just deserted him. 2) Alfonso XIII was rumored to have made in Rome the first move in his long-rumored project of obtaining from Mother Church an annulment of his marriage to ex-Queen Victoria of Spain, first cousin of George V. 3) Prince Juan, on whom Spanish Royalists now pin their hopes as "the only available...
...their unbounded disgust, army, navy and civil guards stayed loyal. At least 400 were killed, 1.500 wounded in the bloodiest week-end the Republic has seen. What caused this revolt to fail, like all the others that have shaken the country since the fall of Alfonso XIII, was a complete lack of organization...
Fine Arts: "Les Trols Mousquetaires"--a good version of Dumas' perpetual story of chivalry and adventure at the court of Louis XIII. A bit too long and somewhat confusing since all the characters look amazingly alike...
Fine Arts: "Les Trois Mousquetalres"--a good version of Dumas' perpetual story of chivalry and adventure at the court of Louis XIII. A bit too long and somewhat confusing since all the characters look amazingly alike...
...Apostolic Delegate in Washington, D. C. In pious sorrow last week the Cardinal-Prefect reminded the world that today no less than 6,000,000 people still live in slavery. He called Catholic attention to "the importance of the Church anti-slavery program as enunciated by Pope Leo XIII"-who in 1888 exhorted his Brazilian bishops to banish slavery from their country in an encyclical flaying "the accursed pest of servitude" and ordering an annual anti-slavery collection taken in Catholic churches...