Word: monarchistic
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...many a Scotch & soda with Im Thurn cronies. Last week a Sofia dispatch passed by the Bulgarian censor stated flatly that when Rear Admiral Im Thurn landed he "had instructions to urge the military leaders in Bulgaria not to do anything that might lead to abandonment of the monarchist form of government...
...Inevitably he was made Regent of the new Government, for then Finland had an idea it would turn to a monarchy. When it switched to a republic, he quit. When King Gustaf forced Finland to destroy the Aland forts, General Mannerheim was pained as a strategist, as a true monarchist and as a loyal Finn. Today he lives, as becomes a Grand Old Man, quietly in Helsingfors with his Russian wife, accepting honorary figurehead positions. Not one to go off halfcocked, he lately said, "The dismantling of the Aland Island fortifications has created immense new dangers for Finland and Sweden...
...have been married 35 years and she knows well enough I am a Monarchist," shouted General Karel. "But what do I have to put up with? She insults the picture of Kaiser Karl* that hangs in our home. Worse than that she is a notorious Nazi. She holds secret Nazi meetings in our attic without my knowledge. Such goings on! I don't feel in such circumstances that my pension is safe...
...that Austria was not yet ready for a "Heimwehr Cabinet." Their pledge to carry on the Dollfuss tradition bound them, they felt, to pick a new Chancellor from his Catholic party and just after midnight they chose Dr. Schuschnigg, a seasoned lawyer-politician and, like Prince von Starhemberg a monarchist...
...crucial test last week von Papen offered his resignation to Herr Hitler who refused it with excited protestations. This evident shakiness in high Nazi places emboldened German army officers to start rumors that Defense Minister General Werner von Blomberg might attempt a monarchist coup. But with 2,000,000 Nazis enrolled as brownshirt troopers. many of them armed, few Germans believed that any Hindenburg henchman would thus risk civil war. It seemed enough for the present to give Adolf Hitler the scare of his career...