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...Alfonso XIII, outcast King of Spain, returned to France after a tour of the Holy Land without passport or papers of identity. Only in Germany was he halted. Don Alfonso crushed the Zollinspektor by shouting: "Look here, my man, I am an admiral in your navy, a general in your cavalry, a colonel in the Uhlans and I demand your salute...
...fallen king can still fall, Don Alfonso XIII slipped definitely lower last week. One of the richest men and the most powerful monarchist in Spain, sad, grizzled old Count de Romanones, not only broke with his oldtime King but called him in effect a fool for flooding Spain with smuggled copies of a secret manifesto...
Jauntily, after the miscarriage of his plans, Don Alfonso XIII left Paris for a tour of the Holy Land. "This is comic beyond belief!" he chuckled in Jerusalem when correspondents asked if he had signed the manifesto. "This is what I should call taking my name in vain...
...Romanones that the manifesto is genuine, expressed his disgust at the depths of hypocrisy it revealed. It was understood that Count de Romanones and Juan de la Cierva proposed to join forces, founding a new Monarchist Party to elevate as King of Spain someone other than Don Alfonso XIII...
Since his flight from Spain without abdicating, Alfonso XIII has visited at least half the kings now reigning, but not until last week did he find one willing to do him "royal honors." Coming from Jerusalem to Cairo, lean King Alfonso was received as such by the Egyptian Grand Chamberlain, whisked off to lunch with fat King Fuad...