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Move For New Monarchy
Wednesday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
£1,000,000 Restored To Ex-King: Franco
Wants
Son
To Rule
EX-KING Alfonso of Spain is to gain nearly
£1,000,000 by the decision of General Franco to restore Loss Of Nerve
the privately owned property which was confiscated by
the Spanish Parliament seven years ago.
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He is also to enjoy his rights as a Spanish citizen. But that FT Is a common experience that, as
does not mean that he is going to get his throne back.
At the same thne, there is a strong
desire among the various parties that
constitute General Franco's follow-
ing to
restore the monarchy
quickly as possible.
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The grandees, the church, the military cute and the bulk of the pennants all want a King again on the throne of Spain.
Bat the Ring will not be Alfonso. The man they want Is Alfonso'n third son. Don Juan, who served for some years a Midshipman in the British Navy.
Don Juan is warmly in favour of General Franco's polley, end has ol- ready offered to fight in the Franco Army,
Any proposal to place Don Juan on the throne of Spain would be supported by the British Govern- ment, it is understood, because he is friendly to Britain.
Anuther reason for Britain's sup-
Chinese Co-ed
Repressed
Tucson, Ariz.
A Chinese co-ed daughter of a former ambassador to the United States, was denied permisston to enroll as a cadet in the Reservo Officers Training Corps of the University of Arizona. Iling Keo Chow, freshman student," said she wanted to be a soldier and fight Japan.
an apparent result of some emer- gency or accident, a certain number of people, in popular phraseology, "lose their nerve."
In medical phraseology this may include the development, or mant- fcatation of a condition of neuros- thenia, hysteria, neurosis, psycho- neurosis or psychosis, terms on the doctors in of which exact meaning
ves tend to differ, but which themselves
varying
a mental? degrees, a connote, in as well as a physical factor.
There are many people who, after nd fall while climbing a mountain or a ladder, or after a smash while driving
unable to climb a car, feel or drive again, or are apprehensive There are if they have to do so. port is that a King on the throne of others who, after some injury to an arm or leg and long after the phy- Spain would be necompanied by a
been re- sical injury has healed or pulley of "Spain for the Spaniards," paired--manifest losses of movement and would prevent Hitler and Masse- or sensation in the affected port, or ni from getting an economic and develop some curious gait or other diplomatic stranglehold on the coun-disability for which there is no ap-
parent reason. try.
INTERESTING SURVEY
The war gave an enormous oppor-
January 11, 1939.
President Roosevelt, stamp collector, receives a souvenir sheet of Christmas seals, in his White House office. Left to right: Dr. James G. Townsend, president of the local tuberculosis association; Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing director, and Dr. Thomas Parran, Surgeon General and a director of the National Tuberculosis Asso- ciation.
The 22nd Arrives For
Granfer George
ANOTHER grandchild, his 22nd, has arrived for tunity for the laying down of at Mr. George Lansbury, M.P. No one loves children more least a few general principles on the than Mr. Lansbury, but he looks at all his descendants
problems of such people.
This 15 emphasised in an extreme- sometimes and wonders a little fearfully and yet with ly interesting survey of the whole
questionly published book "Trau
by Dr. William Brend in hopes that ....
his
However, let the Grand Old Man of the East End speak for matic Mental Disorders in Courts of himself on what it is like to be the doyen of what he confesses is Law (Ileinemann, 7s. 6d).
As a neurologist to the Ministry or becoming something of a Lansbury Tribe.
Pensions, a
lecturer on Forensic. "Yes," he rald, "I have my twenty- "And so when look at my little the view, in spite of all the shouting, that Medicine, and a medical assessor, Dr. second grandchild. It is Erie's this grandchildren I still adhere to my Brend has had an unusually wide time--my youngest con-and
big bonny boy war is not inevitable, and in my experience. And briefly he is scep- baby is a great tical, from the purely medical stand-weighing b. That makes how heart of hearts I think that these Bessie has one, boys, for whom I sometimes fear, point, whether in the great majority many grandsons?
of cases an accident or emergency Bill three, Dolly pue. Violet two,w, if they are given the life, live
world's history. can in itself produce the permanent Edgar two, and this is Eric's third, through the most vital period of the condition that might be summed up, That makes 12 grandsons. in the term "Jose of nerve."
ស instance, Although, for points out, there were large numbers like anyone else who is human, but, new grandson as soon as I can." of such cases omongst those serving there is in these days a terrible un-
"How do feel about it? Well, 1: "And now I must go und see my he love children and enjoy their arrival
In the War, a considerable propor- dercurrent of fear about what is to
tion of them had seen no netive ser-happen to them. This Is Eric's third Auto Tourists From Afar
I contiqually ask myself. vice, and, there was no observable boy and relation between the severity of a what their future is going to be." wound and a subsequent loss
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Prince Paul, Regent of Yugoslavia, who took over the govern→ ment after the assassination of his brother, King Alexander, In Marseilles four years ngo, leaves the Russian church in London with Princess Olga. Word from New York police that assassins were en route on the Queen Mary to kill him caused Paul to quit London under heavy guard.
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Sacramento, Cal. California attracted automobile Mr. Lansbury paused. "And yet through it all," he went visitors from 27 countries of the world An accident brings into light, on, "I have a sort of hunch, as people during recent months, according to a some would say, that things will not be check on licences issued. The foreign rather than actually causes, previously underlying defect of men- as bad as we fear. There is in the visitors came from the Latin Amerl- that world to-day a terrifle desire for lean cuntries, China, Japan, Arabin, tal and physical co-ordination evinces itself in some conscious fear peace. We must not allow ourselves England, France, Switzerland and In-
Idia. to be blinded by noise. or loss of bodily control.
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