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...Madrid last week Deputy Jiminez Asua made formal request to the Supreme Court to reopen the famed de Arrizola case of 1901 on the basis of new evidence in behalf of the plaintiff and proof of forgery presented by the defendant. Alfonso XIII. The move called world attention to a cause célèbre of 20 years ago, to ex-King Alfonso mouse-quiet in Fontainbleau and to the state of the Spanish Republic...
Unlike Don Jaime de Bourbon, Alfonso XIII's cousin, Alfonso Sanz y Martinez de Arrizola never claimed to be the rightful King of Spain, but he did claim that the Spanish royal family owed him a living, promised him an inheritance and defaulted its obligation. The story...
...Alfonso XIII's father, Alfonso XII, was married to his pretty cousin Maria de las Mercedes de Montpensier only six months before she died. Almost immediately after he listened to the advice of his ministers and married the Habsburg archduchess Maria Christina, and to console himself entered into a liaison with the singer...
...Churches have found the Depression an admirable background for a vigorous renewal of their age-old attacks on Mammon. But only the Roman Catholic Church may be said to have an official attitude on "Economics." This attitude, based on Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891), the Statesman-Pope, Pius XI, has elaborated in many a pronouncement. Denouncing Communism, rejecting Socialism, chiding Capitalism, finding Syndicalism (the Fascist type of government-in-business) too powerfully concentrated, Pius XI has come out for: minimum wage laws; old-age pensions; private property, even a "modest fortune" for workers; government regulation of business...
...obtained this photo from a British pilot (name forgotten) in November 1918 when stationed at the Toul airdrome as a flight commander of the U. S. Pursuit Squadron No. 141 (equipped with type XIII Spads) under command of Princeton's famed "Hobey" Baker...