SPAIN: Vandals
The tomb of Queen Isabella and her consort, King Ferdinand, was robbed of the cross on the top part of the famous iron screen that surrounds their last resting place in the Royal Chapel of the Cathedral of Granada. The Government issued warrants for the arrests of the robbers, who sold the cross as old iron to several dealers.
" The King of Spain could never abdicate in order to avoid dealing with the problems and difficulties presenting themselves." So said Alfonso XIII in a speech after laying the foundation stone of the Library of Fine Arts at Madrid. He made the statement in answer to a newspaper report announcing that he was about to abdicate. " I am not a deserter," he remarked.
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GUILLAUME MORAND, a Swiss businessman and non-Muslim who has built a minaret above his company building to protest his country's decision to ban the architectural features
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