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Spanish opponents of Franco, right and left, are currently in an apathetic, hopeless mood. They are bitterly disappointed at the U.N. resolution. Said a wealthy, anti-Franco monarchist: "I find this resolution to be a comedy. I do not think the United States or Britain want to upset Franco until they make some permanent arrangement with Russia...
Last week, after gibes by fellow Laborites that he was a "monarchist" who had sold out and "joined in building up the royal wedding ballyhoo," Driberg felt constrained to defend his besmirched leftist reputation by leaning over backward so far he reached almost from Buckingham Palace to Billingsgate. Said Driberg...
...monarchist, classicist France, a few young, unknown romantics such as Victor Hugo took fire from De I'Amour. But it received only two reviews-both of which were written secretly by Stendhal himself. In Germany, the aging Goethe read History of Painting in Italy and Rome, Naples and Florence-the enthusiastic studies of Italian painters and passions signed "M. de Stendhal, former cavalry officer," and remarked appreciatively, "This man knows how to use others with skill." It was an apt remark, for it was Stendhal's habit to lift his material from others' books and then calmly...
...results, announced several days after the vote, also were accepted calmly (with the exception of minor monarchist outbreaks at Naples, Rome and Palermo). The Christian Democrats had won 207 seats in the 559-deputy assembly. They and lesser parties, their probable allies, could expect to control 275 seats. The Socialists got 116, the Communists...
...would not attend the ceremonies inaugurating the First Italian Republic. His advisers, mostly Roman aristocrats, had polled their servants and country retainers, naively informed him "the common people" wanted their king. When he found out differently, Umberto, surprised and pained, lingered on in Rome in the hope that monarchist demonstrations would grow into a popular demand that he keep the crown. But his Queen Marie-José and their four children had already left for Lisbon...