WAR IN SPAIN: Carlists v. Legitimists

To Gibraltar last week the Rightist Government sent an official announcement that El Caudillo Francisco Franco has expelled from Rightist Spain Francis Xavier Charles Marie Anne Joseph, Prince of Bourbon-Parma, Carlist pretender to Spain's vanished throne.*

Among the Spanish Rightist parties which back the Franco Government are two royalist groups. Of these the Legitimists want to enthrone former King Alfonso XIII's third son Don Juan. The Carlists had as their candidate old Don Alfonso Carlos, who 65 years ago tried by an armed insurrection to seize the throne. When the new revolution broke out 18 months ago, he was 86....

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