"IF I WERE KING"
__King Alfonso, who was proclaimed King of Spain the day he was born 44 years ago, has revealed to the Biarritz correspondent of the London "Sunday Express" his ideas of the function of a King. "HI had not been born a King," he said "I would be working in some large motor-ear factory. If it could be done, I would like to follow the example of Peter the Great, the Eussian Tsar, who harvelled incognito all over Europe, and who did not shrink! from taking jobs in Dutch and English j shipyards and factories just to become acquainted with the latest developments in shipbuilding and manufacturing. It is a good thing, too, for a King. The King is a worker, just like the majority of his people. lam -l worker. I was born a monarch, not because I chose it. I have to do my iob just like any other man. I was in Ensland recently, and noticed the Prince of Wales occupied every day with the unemployment question, and doing his best to help find a solution of the mining situation in Britain. If the Prince of Wales is entitled to speak on industrial questions, it is because he has studied the matter from the ground up anfl thTngL Sf°X C» ab°Ut •&»*
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 30
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