Word: monarchistic
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...Habsburg gleamed on the banquet table in the Hall of Mirrors. Faded Habsburg livery was unpacked and donned by Austrian flunkies to wait upon the daughter of Europe's modern Caesar, Edda, Countess Ciano. Archdukes of the House of Habsburg came with Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, a devout Monarchist who would like to restore the Habsburgs with young Archduke Otto enthroned at Vienna as Emperor...
...considered it of "human interest" that on the voyage the Infanta Beatriz had played privately on the musical saw and Queen Victoria Eugenie had permitted herself to be publicly amused at the ship's concert by long-nosed Buffoon Jimmy Durante. Passengers told how a contingent of Spanish Monarchist youths sailed on the Conte di Savoia from the French Riviera to Gibraltar to enlist and tight with the Spanish Whites. To them Victoria Eugenie was "Our Queen." They knelt to Her Majesty and kissed her hand while the Italian band played the Spanish royal anthem. Thus in pathetic dignity...
...Madrid. Last week proud Count Romanones was let out of a San Sebastian jail, reputedly after making "charitcble contributions" of 2,000,000 pesetas ($260,000). Arriving in France, he was obsequiously met by an undersecretary of the Cabinet of Socialist Premier Leon Blum. Snorted the old Monarchist: "I was not afraid because I knew I was protected by those I always had commanded and who always obeyed...
...north, still more paradoxically, General Mola, who served under several of King Alfonso's Cabinets and is supposed to have the most Monarchist leanings of any commander in the Revolution, continued his refusal to have anything to do with Alfonso XIII's heir Prince Juan, whom he recently sent packing out of Spain (TIME, Aug. 17). The exiled King, who is at pains to keep repeating that he never abdicated, was at Dellach in Austria for the mournful second anniversary last week of the death of his youngest son, Gonzalo, in a motor accident. Said...
Premier Santiago Casares Quiroga promptly suspended Parliament for eight days, and all the Monarchist Deputies swore never to return. Unwisely the Government refused to allow Calvo's body to lie in state anywhere, barred a mob of 30,000 Rightists from the cemetery where he was being buried. When the crowd gave the Fascist shout, "Up Spain!" Assault Guardsmen fired, killed five, wounded three. Forehanded, President Manuel Azaña ordered the Army and Civil Guards mobilized in quarters, ordered a roundup of Rightist leaders, jammed them into jails. Talkative Rightists had begun telling about a great Army revolt...