Word: monarchism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incapable of self-guidance, and 2) that they need to be saved from themselves by a church-directed state which applies the rules of religion with an iron glove. In the past, Cardinal Segura clashed with King Alfonso XIII because he thought him far too mild and liberal a monarch. Nowadays, he belabors Dictator Franco for Art. 6 of the new Spanish charter, which offers the paper assurance, at least, that non-Catholics may not be "molested" because of their religion...
Among Herrera's opponents is Francisco Franco, whose regime he peppers with charges of social injustice and corruption. Herrera would like to see Franco succeeded by a constitutional monarch. Last year, when Herrera transferred his school to Madrid, Franco's friend, the Archbishop of Madrid, asked the Pope to have the bishop's activities confined to Málaga. The Vatican backed Herrera...
...Commons, called Cynthia Thompson from her home (she had retired from TIME'S London staff six weeks ago) to work on a story about the King's illness for the Medicine section, set Joan Bruce to digging up some of the unusual prerogatives of the British monarch, and sent A. T. Baker to Sandringham. Stopped politely by the police constable at the massive gate to the castle, Baker visited local pubs, knocked on strange doors, interviewed storekeepers who held royal warrants and talked to villagers sloshing through wet fields...
Four Dukes. On Friday morning, as plain Britons jammed the curb and watched from rented windows along the way, the dignitaries lined up in another Great Queue, to escort the dead monarch to Paddington Station. Soldiers from the far reaches of his Commonwealth led the procession, followed by the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders from Scotland, the Royal Welch Fusiliers, the Irish Guards, and detachments of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. Britain's greatest soldiers walked with their men: Air Marshals Portal and Tedder, Field Marshals Alanbrooke, Ironside and Montgomery...
...life story from his own sources-and not to read Carlova. Editorials were reverent without being mawkish. Even McCormick's Anglophobic Chicago Tribune bowed its head: "George VI will be remembered as a man of simple piety, a good man . . . and a model of what a constitutional monarch should...