The Archive · 1930

Monarchist Parade in Madrid

Madrid, Apr. 21.

Thirty thousand very orderly and extremely enthusiastic Monarchists to-day, demonstrated their loyalty to the King at the Piazza del Toros, the principal square in Madrid.

The president of the organizing committee said that the meeting was called as a protest against the attacks on King Alfonso, who a perfect model of a gentleman."

Senor Morallo, the spokesman of the Royalist labour group, declared that the King was the hardest working labourer of all.

Senor Giocoechea, a former Minister, claimed that social was more compatible with a monarchy than with a republic, adding that no country was less suited for republicanism than Spain.—Reuter.

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