Word: monarchistic
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...German prison camp. Fellow officers have often noted his totalitarian sympathies. Suave, dark General Jean Josèphe Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny became commander of Vichy's Tunisian troops. His name has often been linked with the pre-war Croix de Feu (fascists) and Cagoulards (monarchist terrorists). To command the French Mediterranean Fleet, Vichy appointed young Admiral Gabriel Adrien Josèphe Paul Auphan, British-hating favorite of Admiral Darlan, brother of an editor of the British-hating Action Fran...
...short-wave station calling itself Gustav Siegfried Eins began sending out anti-Nazi propaganda from inside Germany. Its voice identified itself as "The Chief." The Chief's policy was anti-Semitic and anti-Communistic, as well as anti-Nazi, leading listeners to suspect a group of old-school monarchist Army officers. Chief gripe: the awarding of the Iron Cross to SA and SS men for killing Jews and Communists. Sample...
...home, Vichy was worried about the formation of a volunteer French legion to fight Russia, headed by Eugène Deloncle, leader of the prewar, monarchist Cagoulards ("hooded men"-TIME, Dec. 6, 1937). Such a force might be useful to the Nazis if they wished to foment an anti-Pétain revolution. Last week Vichy's Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan forbade the legion to bear arms until it had crossed France's borders en route to Russia...
...Moscow reported: 1) Italians Achille Starace and Ettore Muti had formed a cabal to replace Benito Mussolini with Crown Prince Umberto, then sue for peace; 2) a monarchist had fired two shots at Mussolini; 3) Adolf Hitler had had an epileptic...
Ever since Alfonso left Spain by request in 1931, Britain has hoped for Spanish Restoration, would welcome British-trained Don Juan as king. Monarchist-minded Boss Franco is also Axis-minded, and for this reason he had nothing to say about Alfonso's gesture last week. Meanwhile in Mexico fugitive Spanish Republicans announced that they had banded with a cabal of anti-Franco Monarchists for Franco's overthrow. If the Spanish die were cast, it had not stopped rolling...