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Juan Carlos is in effect the son of Franco. All Franco's structures will have to disappear, including Juan Carlos. The junta democratica believes in free elections. If there is a monarchy, if the people decide they want one, then the monarch will be [Pretender to the Throne] Don Juan, not Juan Carlos. If the people decide for a republic, it will be neither one nor the other. Political parties will surface. They are almost on the surface now, and among them, of course, is the Communist Party. This will happen independent of whether Juan Carlos wants...
Vischer says that King Louis XIV's purported remark, "I am the state," would "hardly be an exaggeration on the lips of the Pope," who is an absolute monarch in his postage-stamp realm. Vischer also argues that Vatican City's existence as a sovereign state limits the church's readiness to support anti-establishment political movements...
...Popular Monarch. Despite their current worries, however, the Thais have many built-in strengths to fall back on-including their ancient tradition of independence and their long-nurtured fear of the Vietnamese, with whom they have warred for centuries. They also have an immensely popular monarch, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 47, a tireless worker who spends much of his time traveling in rural Thailand with a walkie-talkie in his hip pocket. In addition, the country has remained stubbornly prosperous, with sharply rising foreign exchange and gold reserves-a fact that has undoubtedly inhibited the growth of the Communist insurgency...
...neatly woven together. Pipes leaves the loose ends out entirely, examining Imperial Russia's various social classes from the single perspective of their relation to the growing Tsarist authority. His narrative becomes no more than a tale of each of the different social classes getting caught in the patrimonial monarch...
...nobles were the first to get stuck. Although their duties as administrators of the realm enabled them to put a check on the absolute power of the crown, their panicked reaction to the Emancipation in 1861 revealed the large extent of their dependence on the use of the monarch's serfs for survival. Realizing this, the nobles began to accept what was given to them a little more gratefully, living out the Russian "conviction" that the path way to wealth lies not in fighting the authorities but in collaborating with them. And Pipes argues that with trade and manufacture...