If a 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.
"That manifesto," said Count de Romanones bitterly, "was both silly and absurd. I wish I could say that it was not authentic."
Jauntily, after the miscarriage of his plans, Don Alfonso XIII left Paris for a...
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