Word: monarchistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caused a good deal of comment in the press; although the people, surprisingly enough, refrained from any outward manifestation of their contempt or approval. The absence of rotten eggs and other uncomplimentary gifts is considered by the antiroyalist press as nothing short of a 1923 miracle; even the monarchist journals are not too enthusiastic for Wilhelm. Herewith some comments...
...prominent German Republican: " If the German monarchist movement depended merely upon the person of Wilhelm II, we republicans would not have to worry...
...Deutsche Tageszeitung, monarchist paper: " He (Bismarck) did not even know how to smoke a pipe...
...whole of Germany is plunged into wildest pandemonium, which is in turn aggravated by the radicals fighting against all comers-for peace! In a country gone sick with misery a solitary phantom strides the earth with noiseless, slippery, dreadful steps -Ludendorff. This crafty man is the leader of the monarchists. He moves but is not seen. From Munich he directs the operations of his reactionary adherents in much the same way that he directed the army supplies when he was Quartermaster General in the Imperial Army. He writes, make speeches, acts for the cause of royalism; but in all this...
...government is stirring up more of a tempest in its teapot than it has bargained for. Saxony is the center of an ultra-radical party, as antipathetic to the reactionaries as fire is to water. And with every rattle of the Monarchist sabre, the red flag is waved a little harder. If the violent Right should go to buffets with the violent left, the trembling Center would find the back of passive resistance in the Ruhr well-high broken...