Word: monarchistic
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...example, a year ago the editor of the monarchist paper ABC, one of the biggest dailies in the country (circ. 90,000), was removed by the government for publishing "news and editorials contrary to official policy." A fortnight ago Franco's Falange party struck at ABC again by drastically cutting its newsprint quota, after the paper neglected to print a "required" editorial praising government candidates for public office. So strong is government censorship that neither the actions against ABC nor the proposed new press law have been reported in the country. When the New York Times's international...
...Monarchist who sometimes seems to dislike Italy's center-democrats almost as much as the Communists, Guareschi is currently serving a year in jail for libeling Christian Democratic Party Leader and ex-Premier Alcide de Gasperi...
Italy's aggressive Monarchist Party, a 34 small growth which developed into Italy's fourth largest party, had split in two. The Monarchists, basically a right-wing collection financed by Italy's well-to-do, favored a return to monarchy under a constitution, yet did not seem really to think it feasible professed support of parliamentary democracy yet often voted with Communists, fellow travelers and neo-Fascists against Italy's hard-pressed Christian Democratic center. Contradictions of purpose and tactics hurried the split, but it .was specifically caused by the rivalry of two strong figures...
...past year Lauro, whose shipping business puts him in intimate contact with many government officials, has favored lending the Monarchists' 39 parliamentary votes to the Christian Democrats on crucial issues, to prevent a collapse that might open the door to the Red Socialists and Communists. Covelli preferred to hold back and gamble that the Christian Democrats would be forced to solicit Monarchist support-for a heavy political price...
...also over which was the real head of the party. When the Italian Senate recently ruled that Lauro could not keep both his Senate seat and the mayor's job in Naples, Lauro angrily blamed Covelli for not helping him. Recent municipal elections have shown a shrinkage of Monarchist appeal at the polls. On top of that, Covelli, against Lauro's wishes, suddenly went back on a Monarchist promise to support EDC. At that point, the man for whom the Monarchists presumably exist-49-year-old ex-King Umberto-sent a message from exile in Portugal which...