Word: carlists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Don Jaime of Bourbon (Jaime Juan Carlos Alfonso Felipe de Bourbon-Anjou), 61, Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, cousin of deposed King Alfonso XIII; of a heart attack; in Pans...
...Saragossa) and every member of his Cabinet. Numerous parties entered candidates, but as foreseen, conservative Republicans and moderate Socialists swept the boards. Communists made no progress. The only districts that showed Royalist strength were medieval Navarre, whose sympathies are not for Alfonso but his 60-year-old cousin, the Carlist Pretender Don Jaime; and Guadelajara, pocket borough of wrinkled canny Count de Romanones who used to dandle Alfonso XIII on his knee. Enthusiasti- cally returned was Foreign Minister Alejandro Lerroux, whose power in the Government has been growing daily, who seemed certain to be Premier when a permanent Cabinet...
...month; in Madrid. His life was spent in the army-sent to Cuba in 1896, he attempted ruthlessly to suppress the rebellion, succeeded only in intensifying discontent. He was recalled and did not actively participate in the Spanish-American War. Twice minister of war, he helped suppress Catalan, Basque, Carlist uprisings. He was a fierce enemy of the late Primo de Rivera; some said he lived until 92 just so that Primo should never succeed to his rank. He was No. i General in the army; Primo was No. 2. New No. 1 man: Captain-General Ricardo Buerguete Lana...