Word: regente
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...Emperor. In 1924, Hirohito became Regent. Four years later he formally ascended the throne, with all the pomp and circumstance of ancient, perhaps prehistoric, ceremony...
...Nicholas Horthy, aging (76) Admiral and Regent of Hungary until Hitler jailed him six months ago. He was held in custody by U.S. troops, met U.S. newsmen, begged for understanding of Hungary's forced position as an Axis satellite, asked for a place at the "peace conference," refused to "say anything against the old [pre-Hitler] Germany...
Although he swore that he would not resign, the General had lost more face than he could spare. Finally he stomped in to see the disturbed Regent, old Archbishop Damaskinos. Behind closed doors, angry voices grappled. The bearded Archbishop, who in his day had wrestled men as well as souls, would not be thrown. The General screamed: "Tragos!" ("Billy goat!"). Then he stomped out and resigned...
Reported Dead. Admiral Nicholas Horthy, 77, aristocratic, choleric ex-Regent of Hungary whose catch-as-catch-can foreign policy (collaboration with Hitler until invading Russian troops suggested a quick switch to the Allies) was always one bad guess behind; of a heart attack (according to the Paris radio): probably in Weilheim Castle near Munich, Germany, where he has been under Nazi "protection...
...fought the Germans with captured Italian arms, hoarded its superior British arms to use in the seizure of power in Greece. ¶ It had been much less zealous in fighting the Germans than in fighting other Greeks. ¶ELAS had committed atrocities during the civil war. The Regent, Archbishop Damaskinos, estimated the number of persons killed by ELAS, or by the Communist Party's terrorist organization, OPLA, at 10,000. Many of them were civilians. ¶ The three EAM trade-union leaders, who claimed to represent Greek labor, were all formerly associated with Moscow's Red International...