SPAIN: Alfonso Unmasked

Safe in Paris, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish novelist, published his much advertised attack upon the King of Spain (TIME, Oct. 20). In a pamphlet entitled Alfonso Unmasked, Ibanez accused the King of remaining “a precocious child, without becoming a man,” of being lightheaded, a German spy during the War, the sole cause of the Moroccan disaster of 1921, etc.