At a banquet given in his honor at Córdoba, King Alfonso XIII, referred to the defamation campaign which Señor Vicente Blasco Ibanez has been waging against him:
"I have always done my duty and that is a great satisfaction for my conscience. I count on my people and I assure you that the King will die at his post and that mud will not soil him."
He declared that the gallant officers of the army in Morocco had also been slandered by the now notorious novelist:
"Such calumnies cannot remain unpunished. He who so speaks outside of Spain and who has on no...
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