Word: camarilla
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...Camarilla, Calif...
...MARY LEE CAMARILLA...
...Court Minister Hussein Ala. Onetime Premier, Foreign Minister, Ambassador to the U.S. and the U.N., shrewd, 69-year-old Ala was ousted from the court post last April by Mossadegh, resumed his old job after the Shah returned from his brief exile. One result: today, the old, meddling palace camarilla which made and unmade Premiers in backstairs intrigues is gone. Its leaders-Princess Ashraf and the Queen Mother-have not returned to Iran...
...Foreign Minister-i.e.Dictator-of Greece, arrived on the same train with M. Saracoglu. This short, stout, Potsdam-educated general, veteran of Turkish and Balkan wars, onetime admirer of Hitler, was unusually silent for him. During World War I he was a member of the Greek Court's pro-German Camarilla. Result was that he became a prisoner in French Corsica. Last week he seemed as pro-Allied as neutrals come these days...
...even enlightened, ruler. In point of fact, Carol was never a black sheep. He was as good a product as was likely to come out of the court in which he was reared-a court which reeked with corruption and vice, which was ruled by a conniving and ruthless camarilla, in which mother was pitted against son, brother against brother, sister against sister...