Word: antimonarchist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many Britons were annoyed that Philip talked about the royal family's financial problems on American TV. Some found it hard to sympathize with their plight. William Hamilton, a staunchly antimonarchist Labor M.P., may indeed have reflected the views of overtaxed Britons when he asked: "Does nobody at Buckingham Palace know that millions of loyal subjects are struggling to live on less than it costs to keep the royal corgis?" They are the short-legged dogs that the Queen breeds...
...answer is not as simple as it seems, because it includes both voyages of the mind and those that came of exile and a lifelong career as a Greek diplomat. His family lost all it had during the disastrous Greek-Turkish war in 1922. As regimes changed, his antimonarchist father, a professor of law, was hired or fired. The young poet lived as a diplomat or political exile in a bewildering succession of places-Albania, Crete, South Africa, Egypt, Italy, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq. During World War II, when the Germans and Italians occupied Greece, he remained with...
...King had chosen "the path of wickedness." His party's newspaper warned of the possibility of a dictatorship, and promised that in such a case "the people will mobilize massively to overthrow the regime." At week's end crowds of pro-Papandreou students chanting "Andreas" and antimonarchist slogans clashed with police in Athens and Salonika...
...government resign and call new elections. It was Papandreou whom Stephanopoulos ultimately succeeded in 1965, after discovery of an abortive plot to infiltrate the military with leftists. Kanellopoulos supposedly agreed to press for an amnesty for the accused plotters (among them, Papandreou's son); in return, the popular, antimonarchist Papandreou would consent to hold off on elections, giving Kanellopoulos a chance to build his own popularity with voters...
...some European nations. Certainly today's rulers have serious problems. Greece's young King Constantine is at loggerheads with the politicians in a country where politics is played like karate (a sport at which Constantine excels). Jordan's Hussein is doing his best to stave off antimonarchist rioters instigated by his leftist neighbors, Syria and the United Arab Republic. Only last week the new African nation Burundi ended the 400-year-long tribal rule of King Ntare...