Word: monarchism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hereditary monarch but a President who made himself King, Zog I is not, like almost all hereditary royalties, more afraid to run than to stand...
Similarly most kings make it a policy to pardon men for attempting their lives, when they would never think of pardoning them for attempting citizens' lives. The monarch hopes he will be thought "magnanimous," dare not be thought "vengeful...
...oaths of allegiance which will bind to him the bodies, minds and souls of his new Cabinet. Beneath the crucifix lies a Bible. Upon it swear Prime Minister Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar y Cabanas and, one by one, all the rest. Thus last week King Alfonso XIII, last absolute monarch in western Europe, switched back into the vein of dictatorship-this time with a salt-sea flavor. In receiving the oaths of his two military dictators (the late General Primo de Rivera and his successor General Berenguer), blue-jawed Alfonso always wore the uniform of a field marshal. Smart King...
Goya came at a time when the spirit of revolt stirred all Europe, and his own country, Spain, ruled over by a weak monarch, Charles IV, was the prey of stronger nations. Goya saw the follies, the weaknesses, and the misdemeanors of the people and the court, and in his Caprices and Proverbs, he denounced them in the most scathing manner. Napoleon's ambition to add Spain to his list of conquered nations, resulted in years of fighting accompanied by starvation, mutilation, and all the horrors of war. These hideous scenes accompanying Spain's struggle for independence, were translated...
...back of the A. E. F. . . . I say to my fellow members of the American Legion that you cannot salute your flag with a clear conscience until Al Capone is knocked off the throne erected by the Anti-Saloon League. I ... refuse to pay homage to this Chicago monarch. He has neither money enough nor enough lead to make me change my mind. By this plurality of one vote, I make myself the leader opposing the existing gunman autocracy in the United States. . . . [The Anti-Saloon League attempts to justify Prohibition] by preparing an economic report which always fails...