Word: figureheaded
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...monarchy. The junta still professes loyalty to the monarchy, but it has a different kind of monarchy in mind. Its members are unlikely even to consider Constantine's return until they draw up a new constitution that will severely limit his powers and make him a figurehead. Last week Deputy Premier Stylianos Pattakos told a Dutch journalist: "We aspire to have a monarchy in which the monarch has no political power-a modern King such as there is in England, Sweden and The Netherlands. A King standing apart and above political parties...
...thin-skinned about criticism or ridicule from his fellow Frenchmen. Unlike such helpless victims of the public and press as Lyndon Johnson or Harold Wilson, however, he has found a way to intimidate and punish his critics. In 1881, when the President of France was a powerless and nonpolitical figurehead, the National Assembly passed a law against insulting him "by speeches, cries, threats uttered in public places, or by writings, posters or notices exhibited to the public." In its first 77 years on the books, the law was invoked only nine times. Then, on his accession in 1959, De Gaulle...
...plenum, the Central Committee, met and declared the end for Novotný. Though its communiqué allowed him to "resign" and mechanically praised his accomplishments, the plenum fired Novotný as party leader, the country's most powerful post, leaving him only in the figurehead role of President. Into Novotný's place stepped the man who engineered the ouster. He is Alexander Dubček, 46, a Presidium member, lead er of the Slovak wing of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, and the first member of the country's 5,000,000 Slovak minority to hold...
...Long live the King!" Coming from the man whom the King had tried to overthrow only a week earlier, it was indeed an extraordinary cry, but it reflected some new realities in Greece: 1) the King will probably return home sooner or later, and 2) he will become a figurehead monarch, stripped of his former wide powers...
...sent Archbishop Leronymos to reason with Constantine. There was some speculation that the King's sister, Princess Irene, might go back as a royal standin. But the King so far seemed disinclined to return, fearing that his position would be reduced still further to that of a mere figurehead. Even so, having failed in his open revolt against the junta, the King could yet decide that, by returning, he might once again stand before his people as an advocate of constitutional rule-a role that would be difficult to assume in exile...