Word: monarchistic
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...King's Place. Few monarchist nations demand less of their sovereigns than Belgium. Of their King, Belgians expect tact, tolerance and conformity to good bourgeois ideals. Belgians-nearly half of whom are French-speaking and mostly anticlerical Walloons, the others predominantly
Major General Antonio Aranda Mata is still honored in Spain as the stubborn and victorious commander of the Franco forces in the bloody Civil War siege of Oviedo (1936) which lasted 91 days. But one night two years ago Franco police arrested Monarchist Aranda in a brewery where he had been meeting fellow members of the Comité Imperio de Coordination, a clandestine coordinating committee of anti-Franco underground groups. Aranda's civil war record bought him his freedom. He went into retirement, dividing his time between the reading room of the Club Casino de Madrid and his apartment...
Times's roving foreign correspondent, C. L. Sulzberger: 1) recent food strikes in Spain were planned, had the support of monarchists, police, and employers who promised to pay the strikers' wages; 2) the Spanish army is divided and in the event of war, Spaniards will not fight for Franco, but against him; 3) General Aranda heads a monarchist-left-wing socialist opposition...
...part, Brown's report may have been too strong. Item: Aranda is not considered the leading monarchist in Spain. But Aranda has shown in the past that he is willing to take risks for his political convictions. If the divided opposition parties should be able to reach a working agreement, the hero of Oviedo might emerge as the key figure in Spain...
That afternoon, Pamplona, scene of the country's wildest bullfights and heart of monarchist, anti-Communist Spain, was tied up by a general strike, the latest in a series of strikes that has swept Spain this spring (TIME, March...