Word: monarchists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Niceto Alcalá Zamora y Torres, 71, first President of the second Spanish Republic (1931-36); after long illness; in Buenos Aires. A Monarchist turned Republican, Alcala Zamora became President after a bloodless revolution in 1931, was himself kicked out of office by leftists three months before the outbreak of civil war in 1936, was finally exiled by Franco...
...monarchist," stormed the prosecutor, "but your pamphlets might well have been signed by the worst enemies of monarchy-the Communists...
...royal pretender, Don Juan. Many times during the last few years she had been fined or imprisoned for breaching the peace, resisting the law and distributing anti-government propaganda. This time the Falangists had charged her with treason because she had shouted seditious comments at the funeral of a monarchist friend who had died in a Franco prison...
...candlelit room at the War Ministry a military court of five officers set themselves to the trial of the turbulent duchess. At first, she answered their questions with composure. "Yes," she purred, "I am a monarchist. Yes, I distributed anti-Franco propaganda. Yes, I would do it again if set free...
...Lisbon, Monarchist Leader Gil Robles perfunctorily denied this. He had to, having promised the Portuguese government not to engage in politics as long as he was a guest of Portugal...