Word: monarchistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fallen king can still fall, Don Alfonso XIII slipped definitely lower last week. One of the richest men and the most powerful monarchist in Spain, sad, grizzled old Count de Romanones, not only broke with his oldtime King but called him in effect a fool for flooding Spain with smuggled copies of a secret manifesto...
...Cierva, father of the famed inventor of the autogiro, agreed with Count de Romanones that the manifesto is genuine, expressed his disgust at the depths of hypocrisy it revealed. It was understood that Count de Romanones and Juan de la Cierva proposed to join forces, founding a new Monarchist Party to elevate as King of Spain someone other than Don Alfonso XIII...
Eleven years later Finland again had need of Ukko Pekka, much as Republican Germany whose first president was the Socialist Friederich Ebert turned at last to the former Monarchist von Hindenburg. In 1930 Gentleman Farmer Svinhufvud became Premier. Early this year he who had been Regent was elected President. Under his frowning rule (for the steely eyes can be stern as well as twinkle) Communism has been made illegal in Finland, Communists punished or forced into other parties. "But we know where they are," rumbles the President contentedly, "We keep a good watch on those fellows...
...train at Madrid and said the last goodbye. As their glory and his reflected glory faded, the Count sat stunned by his emotions on a railway station bench. Last week Count de Romanones rose courageously in the Socialist and savagely antiMonarchist National Assembly. For perhaps the last time Monarchist de Romanones defended with all his forensic skill the Last of the Bourbons...
...wine-shipping Oporto there was little bloodshed but excited crowds hung out the old blue & white monarchist flags and cheered for that amiable flaneur, ex-King Manoel...