Word: antimonarchists
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...which his family had bossed for 104 years. Promised reforms: 1) equal representation in the cabinet for the anti-Rana Nepal Congress Party; 2) election of a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution; 3) amnesty for political prisoners. Rana gave in mostly because of pressure from India whose antimonarchist leaders had backed the King's cause. When he returned to Nepal, King Tribhubana would also take back some new dance steps he had learned in New Delhi nightspots...
Died. Alejandro Lerroux, 85, five times Radical Party Premier of turbulent Republican Spain;* and lifelong antimonarchist; in Madrid, where he returned under Franco amnesty...
...that time (1910), China's revolution against the tottering Manchu dynasty was in progress. Swept along by the torrent, Mao clipped off his queue as an antimonarchist demonstration. Other students promised to follow his example, but later reneged. This prepared Mao for party discipline-or what Lenin called "democratic centralism." Recalls Mao: "A friend of mine and I therefore assaulted them in secret and forcibly removed their queues, a total of more than ten falling victim to our shears...
...black-market currency speculation would anger anyone living in black-market-ridden countries behind the Iron Curtain. Sabotage of Hungarian land reform? That should go down well with the British socialists, who approve of land reform. Conspiracy with the Habsburgs? That was a brilliant idea; it would arouse the antimonarchist elements in the U.S. Conspiracy with the U.S.? That was just as good; it would arouse anti-U.S. elements in Europe. Eventually all the Communist delegates agreed on a draft bill of particulars against Mindszenty...
...Premier Parri's Cabinet were three Actionists, three Socialists, three Communists, three Liberals, three Labor Democrats, four Christian Democrats, one Independent. The Premier was also Minister of the Interior (in charge of the police). Vice Premier Pietro Nenni, Socialist leader, was Minister for the Constituent Assembly; a vociferous antimonarchist, he would organize the election that would decide the monarchy's fate. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti was Minister of Justice, a strategic perch for supervising the purge. But it was a restive coalition...