Word: cabal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author also mixes the actual with the fantastic when he concocts a cabal called "Penelope." Its conspirators are a strange admixture of the notorious and celebrated, including Perfumer François Côty, Sir Alan Paisley, Field Marshal Von Ribbentrop, third in the Nazi hierarchy, and Hugh Selwyn himself. Mauberley's assignment: to persuade Wallis to prop up the Duke as a figurehead who will "rule" a United Europe controlled by fascists from England and Germany. Ribbentrop dangles a glittering prize before the duchess: "Your Royal Highness perhaps does not understand that there are crowns that have never...
...government falls over an astonishing Masonic cabal...
...AGREE ON THE repressiveness of the current Kabul cabal. Not everyone apprehends the degree of democracy under the pre-Marxist regimes. During the '60s King Zahir Shah retained ultimate authority, yes, but he allowed a parliament to be chosen in elections quite free of political parties. Press freedom prevailed for newspapers that could pass the government censors. After his military coup in 1973, Mohammed Daud let dynastic rule continue, but he proclaimed a republic. He relaxed his dictatorial grip so much that his top ministers were authorized to spend up to 70 pounds without his personal approval. So popular...
Superspy Luis winds up working as a double-agent for the Brits, brilliantly predicting from Portugal an Allied invasion of Greece, when the Big One was of course scheduled for North Africa. Despite the deception, the Abwehr concludes that the Cabrillo cabal had spotted every diversionary clue and was blameless...