Word: monarchistic
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Intense industry may be a novelty to Don Niceto, but government office is not. As a loyal Monarchist for years, he served as a deputy in the Cortes and as Undersecretary of the Interior. He was a member of two Cabinets: Minister of Public Works (1917-18), Minister of War (1922-23). Said Primo de Rivera before his coup d'etat...
...heady perfume of praise. All his courtiers told His Majesty that he had just played superlatively well a most difficult hand at statecraft, finessing the Republican parties, easing out that old rebel Jose Sanchez Guerra whom he had "cleverly" called as Prime Minister (TIME, Feb. 23), consolidating the Monarchist parties, and finally setting up under Admiral Aznar the most thoroughly aristocratic Cabinet which even Spain has had in years...
...Dictatorship by merely proclaiming elections (TIME, Feb. 16), and allowing a constitutional Cortes (Parliament) to be elected "as if nothing had happened"-i.e. as if the constitution had not been virtually suspended and the Cortes totally suppressed since 1923. Suddenly last week King Alfonso appeared to realize that the Monarchist parties in Spain were hopelessly split among themselves and afforded no leader who could keep the new Cortes subservient to the Crown. Promptly His Majesty called off the elections he had ordered, called upon Prime Minister Damaso Berenguer (who was still in bed with eczema of the foot) and obtained...
Spain's grand old Liberal-Monarchist, former Prime Minister de Romanones, claimed the credit for King Alfonso's "wisdom'' in calling off the election...
...Roars of monarchist applause followed. News of the Count's outburst was rigidly censored out of Spanish papers next day, and in his palace Alfonso XIII must have felt increasingly alone?for Count de Romanones has long been His Majesty's close, trusted friend...