Word: protectorship
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...Cromwell overnight decided the King must die, and then became utterly ruthless in pressing for his execution. Nor of why, only months before his own death, this driven, self-doubting man of God came within a few hours of accepting the crown himself-only to settle for the protectorship, with nearly all the perks and palaces of kingship...
...Dispatched to Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, head of France's Vichy Government, a note believed to contain a warning that French territories in this hemisphere would be taken under U. S. protectorship if Vichy and Germany moved against the status quo of those territories...
...definitely out of the "wop" class in 1934 when German moves to seize Austria, culminating in the Nazi assassination of plucky little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, caused Benito Mussolini to hurl Italian forces up to the Austrian frontier, warn Adolf Hitler by telephone to keep hands off and assume the protectorship of Austria, which Italy has maintained ever since...
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