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The Outlook in Spain

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Jul 25, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 30.

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The Outlook in Spain

CARDINAL MERRY DEL VAL is on terms of such intimacy with King Alfonso, Dowager Queen Maria Christina, and all the reigning house of Spain, that notwithstanding the tenor of the public despatches from Europe, it is practically certain that a way will be found erelong of effecting an amicable settlement of the difficulties between Spain and the Vatican, difficulties which have existed ever since the Canelejas administration came into power.
Private news which reaches me from Rome and Madrid is decidedly to that effect. Curiously enough, no mention has ever been made in the biographies of the papal secretary of state that he was at one time in charge of the education of Alfonso XIII, while his brother, now holding the rank of minister in the diplomatic service of Spain, was the young monarch's professor of English.
The cardinal and his brother, who have English blood in their veins from the maternal side, were brought up almost wholly in England.
There was much sympathy between the little king of Spain and his tutor, now Cardinal Merry del Val.—Correspondence of the Washington Post, June 28, 1912.