On the day after his departure a manifesto from the King to his people was issued, It contained these words:
"Lam King of, all Spaniards and -I-am a Spaniard. I could find ample means fo maintain my rove]
prerogatives. in effective resistance to those who assail them, But T prefer to stand resolutely assid"
rather than provoke., a conflict which might array my fel'ow-countrymen, against: one -another in civil and fatricidal, strife, "I -renounce "mo single one of my rights, which, rather than being mine, are an accumulate? legacy of history, for the guardianship of which I shall one day have to repeler strict account.
"I shall, await the true and full expression. of the collective, c^n-science and, until the nation speaks, I deliberately suspend exercise of the royal power and as leaving. Spain, thus acknowledging that she is the sole mistress of her. destinies."
The new Republic of Spain tried the ex-King for high treason in h's absence. He was found guilty, His goods and property were declared forfeit and he was condemned to perpetual. banishment, The Republic, tried to secure possession of 2 large portion of the ex-King's private fortune which had been invested in Britain, but at length, in 1934, a British court decided that such monies were inalienable,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.