Word: monarchistic
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...jails all over Spain and across frontiers they poured last week. 9,000 monarchists, clericals, politicians. Some of them had been behind bars or exiled two years, when tousle-haired President Alcala Zamora finally signed Spain's bitterly argued political amnesty bill. Greatest excitement took place before the gates of Cadiz Military Prison where a cheering crowd of bullfighters, waiters and young aristocrats assembled to welcome paunchy General José Sanjurjo, sentenced to death in 1932 for his abortive attempt to stage a monarchist revolution in Andalusia...
...time," said he, "to create a powerful, national, unified State in place of the federal State existing heretofore. In the new Germany there is no place for federal States or for the borders they had. . . . Such institutions might even have a pernicious effect nowadays as a stimulus to Monarchist Party aims which are inimical to the people...
Last week General GÖring was about to become an author. On the 75th birthday of Wilhelm II (see col. 2), one of Berlin's great publishing houses was to bring out I Am a Monarchist by Hermann Wilhelm GÖring. Unfortunately, No. 1 Nazi Adolf Hitler decided fortnight ago that the Party is not Monarchist (TIME, Jan. 29). Hastily Author GÖring changed the title of his book from I Am a Monarchist to The Building of a Nation. Even then its publication was delayed last week by General GÖring's keenest...
...Leipzig printing house signalized the occasion by publishing a book he had written on Oriental symbols, eruditely entitled : The Chinese Monad: its History and Meaning. While Doom hummed with Monarchist delegations, Wilhelm decorated his head gardener and eight under-gardeners with the Royal Order of the House of Hohenzollern, led another religious service for his kin and house servants, inspected tons of birthday gifts including one huge wild boar (live) and bushels of congratulations. Protesting that "the only birthdays worth making memorable are those marking decades," he reminded his guests that in five years he will...
...hitting and insulting a member of Spain's crack police, the Guardia Civil (TIME, July 24). All five had been acquitted last October by a military court. But custom required a military auditor to review and confirm such a verdict. It happened that the auditor was a monarchist and not above embarrassing the Republican government's diplomatic relations with the U. S. He appealed the case to the Supreme Court, irascibly demanding jail sentences of six months and a day. The court saw that four of the five, including the woman, had on the evidence "insulted...