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Move For New Monarchy
Wednesday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 11, 1939.
£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..
Explained
He is also to enjoy his rights as a Spanish citizen. But that TT is a common experience that, as
does not mean that he is going to get his throne back.
At the same time, there is a strong desire among the various parties that constitute General Franco's follow-
Ing to restore the monarchy
qulekly as possible.
as
church. the The grondees, the military custe and the bulk of the peasants all want a King again on the throne of Spain.
But the King will not be Alfonso, The man they want In Alfonso'r third son, Don Juan, who served for bome year. ts a Midshipman in the British Navy,
Don Juan is warmly in favour of General Franco's policy, and has al- offered to Bight in the Franco ready 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.
Another reason for Britain's cup-
Chinese Co-ed Repressed
Tucson, Ariz.
A Chinese co-ed daughter of n former ambassador to the United Stales, was denied permission to enroll as a cadet in the Reserve Officers Training Corps of the University of Arizona. Hing Kee Chow, freshman student," said she wanted to be a soldier and fight Japan.
an apparent result of some emer- gency or necident, a certain number of people, in popular phroscology, "lose their nerve.
In medical phraseology this may include the development, or mani- festation of a condition of neurak thenia, hysterio, neurosis, psycho- neurosis or psychosis, terms on the of which doctora exact meaning themselves tend to differ, but which connote, In varying degrees, a mental as well as a physical factor.
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There are many people who, after a bid fall while climbing a mountain #ladder, or after a smash while driving a car, feel unable to climb or drive again, or are apprehensive There are If they have to do so.
phy- ports that a King on the throne of others who, after some injury to been or
TC- Spain would be accompanied by arm or leg and long after the
paired-manifest losses of movement poller of "Spain for the Spaniards," Firal injury has healed and would prevent Hiller and Musso-lor sensation in the affected pork, or in 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.
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Prince Paul, Regent of Yugoslavia, who took over the govern- ment after the assassination of his brother, King Alexander, In Marseliles four years ago, leaves the Russinn church in London with Princess Olgn. 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.
INTERESTING SURVEY
The war gave an enormous oppor-
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President Roosevelt, stump collector, receives a souvenir sheet Dr. of Christmas seals, in his White House office. Left to right: James G. Townsend, prealdent of the local tuberculosis association; Mrs. Ernest ft. 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 Inging 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 is emphasised in an extreme-sometimes and wonders a little fearfully and yet with ly inte
interesting survey of the whole
question by Dr. William Brend in hopes that
his recently published book "Trau-
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
i).
becoming something of a Lansbury Tribe.
As a
to the Ministry of Pensions, a
lecturer on Forensic "Yes," he ralti, "I have my twenty- "And so when I look at my little Medicine, and a medical assessor, Dr. second grandchild. It is Erie's this grandchildren I still adhere to my Brend hos had an unusually wide time--my youngest son-and the view, in spite of all the shouting, that big bonny buy war is not inevitable, and in my experience. And briefly he is seen baby is a great tical. from the purely medical stand weighing 841. 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 exses an accident or emergency Bill three. Dolly one, Violet two, will, if they are fiven the life, live
world's history. can in itself produce the permanent Edgar two, and this is Eric's third.i through the most vital period of the
grandson condition that might be summed up, That makes 12
"flow do I feel about It? Well. 11 "And now I must go and see my in the terin "loss of nerve."
Although. for instance. as he love children and enjoy their arrival
points
out, there were large numbers like anyone else who is hunan, but, new grandson as soon as I can."
of such cases amongst those serving there is in these days a terrible un
in the War, a considerable propor- dercurrent of fear about what is to
tion of them had seen no active ser-happen to them. This Is Eric's third Auto Tourists From Afar vice, and there was no observable boy and I continually ask myself relation between the severity of a what their future is going to be." wound and a subsequent
Sacramento, Cal. California attructed automneblic
loss of Mr. Lansbury paused.
"And yet through it all," he went visitors from 27 countries of the world nerve.
The foreign An accident brings into light, on, "I have a sort of hunch, as people during recent months, cccording to a
some would say, that things will not be check on licences issued. rather than actually causes, previously underlying defect of men- as bad as we fear. There is in the visitors came from the Latin Ameri- tal and physical co-ordination that world to-day a terrific desire for can countries, China, Japan, Arabin, We must not allow ourselves England, France, Switzerland and lo- evinces itself in some conscious fear peace,
to be blinded by noise. or loss of bodily control.
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