Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrange for the tabling of our respective grievances. . . the better. . . . Our Premier's pledge to Poland was quite explicit. We were to come to her aid 'with all our resources,' which meant that when the first German soldier crossed the Polish frontier the Royal Air Force would bomb Berlin...
...another dark day for British sea power. Surprisingly lost that day was the aircraft carrier Courageous. Last week an even more astonishing disaster occurred. The Admiralty sent an electric thrill of horror through the nation by tersely announcing, with regrets, that "His Majesty's Ship Royal Oak has been sunk, it is believed by U-boat action." Royal Oak* was a battleship of 29,150 tons, built in 1914, and her loss reduced from 15 to 14 the number of Britain's capital ships. The time and place of the sinking were not officially divulged, but it appeared...
...about 1,200 men aboard Royal Oak, only 414 had been saved at latest reports, indicating that she had, when struck, gone down like a dumped ballast of pig iron. Question: How did it happen? Although one old battleship, the Britannia, was downed by submarines two days before the Armistice in 1918, not a single capital ship of the Grand Fleet was torpedoed by a submarine during the whole of the War, and anti-submarine tactics and technology are supposed to have vastly improved since then. In the absence of concrete information neutral naval experts were free to speculate. Best...
...lira, at the same time that the Army private's pay was increased from a few centesimi to a lira. Such dissident Fascists as Italo Balbo, Governor of Libya, and Dino Grandi, onetime Italian Ambassador to Great Britain, have lined up more or less openly with the Royal Family against such Axis Fascists as Count Ciano, Achille Starace and Roberto Farinacci without being castor oiled. The venerable Marshal Pietro Badoglio has long been identified as the King's man, rather than a Fascist...
...anti-Axis Vox Populi has backing in high places. The Royal Family is popularly supposed to have looked with misgivings on the Axis. As the Axis became more unpopular, the Throne gained in popularity until there became noticeable a resurgence of monarchist feeling in Italy. When "Viva Il Duce" is now painted on the walls, the words "Viva Il Re!" are more than likely to be written beside...