Word: monarchistic
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...plastering Paris with posters denouncing the republican government and advocating a prompt return to empire. At his Rue de Varenne mansion the grandson of King Louis Philippe was holding miniature courts and receiving ambassadors from abroad, for all the world as though the Bourbons still reigned. To stem the monarchist tide, France's legislature passed a law ordering from France's soil forever all heads of those families which had ever held the throne of France...
...banged his stick on the sidewalk, clanked a ring of keys, then unlocked the door for a party of four plainclothesmen. The visitors walked up the stairs to the apartment of Don Bernardo Bernardez, 63, respected executive of the Banco Iberico and well-known elder of Spain's monarchist movement...
...Hundred Children. Francisco Franco's government, after years of tight-lipped toleration of the anti-Franco monarchists, was cracking down. The dictator's police gave no explanations, made no charges. But by week's end it had jailed incommunicado more than 30 members of the militant monarchist faction, Avan-zadilla Monarquica...
Communists. In recent months an anti-Franco front has been taking shape. Excluding the Communists, but taking in all other opposition groups, it would accept the monarchist program for a government headed by Pretender Don Juan; later there would be a plebiscite for a new Spanish constitution...
Died. Niceto Alcalá Zamora y Torres, 71, first President of the second Spanish Republic (1931-36); after long illness; in Buenos Aires. A Monarchist turned Republican, Alcala Zamora became President after a bloodless revolution in 1931, was himself kicked out of office by leftists three months before the outbreak of civil war in 1936, was finally exiled by Franco...