SPAIN: Dangerous to Tranquillity

Spain has a Dictator, King, Queen and invalid Crown Prince.

Last week Madrid's dramatic censor forbade production of a new. play by Spain's leading dramatist, Jacinto Benavente, in which were to have appeared a fictional Prime Minister, King, Queen and invalid Crown Prince. The stage King and Queen were to have quarreled with their Prime Minister over whether religious or medical agencies should be invoked to cure the Crown Prince.

Spain's invalid Crown Prince, the Infante Don Alfonso, suffers from exactly the same dread and peculiar disease, haemophilia,* which afflicted the Tsarevitch...

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