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Word: flouter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having spoken, King Peter motored home. Next day the London press, led by the sober-sided Times, called him defiant, a flouter of Churchill, one who "threatens grave embarrassment to the British Government." A spokesman of the Government called the royal statement, issued without his Government's sanction, "unconstitutional." In Belgrade, some 50,000 of King Peter's subjects shouted: "Down with the destroyer of unity, King Peter! Down with the Fifth Column émigrés...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Royal Rebellion | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

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