Word: promonarchist
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Small Arsenal. The first sign that Greece had become a channel for the gunrunners came earlier this year, when a small arsenal was discovered in the home of a promonarchist deputy of the New Democracy Party named Hippocrates Savvouras. Savvouras, who admitted that the illegal arms were his (Greece has a strict antigun law), was kicked out of his party. Two prominent members of militant Socialist Andreas Papandreou's Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) were also caught in possession of five Kalashnikovs and a rocket launcher. Both were tried and received suspended sentences...
...solid, handsome man who, at 26, is the world's youngest monarch, Constantine thus became a besieged king, caught between the demagoguery and displeasure of Greece's leftists and the impetuous action of the rightist military. The dilemma was all the more ironic because the military is strongly promonarchist. It constantly invoked the royal name for every action during the coup, and moved to seize power chiefly because it feared that the King's enemies would win the parliamentary elections scheduled for May 28. The generals feared that victory would go to George Papandreou, 79, and his son Andreas...
...Britain rumor said that the Franco Government's promonarchist Ambassador, the Duke of Alba (TIME, July 5), was touting restoration of the Spanish Bourbons. Reported The Week: Spanish monarchists had decided not to seek to replace Caudillo Franco from within but to work from abroad through influential friends in England...
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