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...Madrid hotel fortnight ago, 90 prominent Spaniards sat down to a dinner duly registered with the police as a monarchist lawyers' meeting to discuss professional technicalities. In fact, many of the diners were not lawyers at all, and at least one was noted for republican sympathies. And when the speeches began, the technicalities of Spanish law were hardly mentioned. While police observers sat by, pencils racing, Joaquin de Satrústegúi, a wealthy Basque lawyer, launched into a go-minute attack on the government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Franco, declared Lawyer Satrústeg...
Married. John Edward Poynder Grigg, second Baron Altrincham, 34, monarchist editor of the National and English Review, whose 1957 analysis of "The Monarchy Today" thoughtfully explored the Crown's position in a world where "republics are the rule," but earned him inglorious publicity for his choice of phrases about the Queen's speaking style ("a pain in the neck") and manner ("that of a priggish schoolgirl, captain of the hockey team"); and Marian Campbell, 27, editor of a youth magazine published by Altrincham; in Tormarton, England...
...Rude," "uncharitable," "vulgar," cried Italian editorialists. Four Italian war veterans' associations demanded government "action" against Monty. Vicenzo Caputo, president of the Italian Nationalist Association, vainly challenged Monty to a duel, and an old-line monarchist demanded that the duffle coats known in Italy as "Montgomerys" be banned. One Italian newspaper recalled Ernest Hemingway's definition of a really dry martini-15 to 1 -called a Montgomery because those were the battle odds Monty demanded...
...than 16 towns now bear the name Franco). "The moral qualities of Francisco Franco as a ruler," said Arriba, "are infinitely superior to those of Emperor Augustus, Charles V, and Napoleon." Such men as Franco, concluded the Catholic Ya, "are the instruments of the highest designs of Providence." The Monarchist A.B.C. recalled Vichy Marshal Petain's remark that Generalissimo Franco's "is the cleanest sword in Europe." Only the Syndicalist paper Pueblo avoided sycophantic assent. Wrote Pueblo sharply: "We believe that rhetoric is indissolubly united to the decadence of Spain over the past centuries...
...poverty-stricken southern Italy, where the government has been lavishing billions of lire on public works, that the Christian Democrats picked up almost all of their 1,500,000 new votes. There they scored heavily off the Monarchists and Neo-Fascists, who between them lost 22 of their 69 Chamber seats in the biggest slideaway of the election. Naples' swashbuckling, 70-year-old millionaire Monarchist Achille Lauro, onetime mayor of the city, was not even elected to his old Senate seat, and appeared finished as a serious political force in Italy...