Word: royalist
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...months after the French National Assembly repealed the Royal Family Exile Law, the Comte de Paris, 42, pretender to the nonexistent throne of France, saw his beloved Paris for the first time in 25 years. As he motored up to Royalist headquarters on the Rue de Constantine, a small, stouthearted band of the faithful cried: "Vive le roi!" Said the Comte: "I am happier than it is possible...
Underground Prince. On Paris streets, wispy old women still peddled literature advocating a return to Bourbon rule, but the royalist cause has been as good as dead for years. By tacit consent of the government itself, 36-year-old Prince Louis Napoleéon, the Bonapartist pretender, had been calmly ignoring the Law of Exile ever since World War II. A well-heeled young businessman, Prince Louis Napoléeon was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for his leadership in the French underground during the war. Since then he has spent a good part of every year...
Maclean's account of life with Tito takes up the most absorbing half of a wholly absorbing book. His prime duties as "Ambassador-leader" were, as Churchill explained, simply to find out which of the guerrilla forces-Tito's Partisans or Royalist General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks-was "killing the most Germans," and to "suggest means by which we could help them to kill more." It did not take Maclean long to conclude that, as a killer, Tito was deadly earnest, Mihailovich increasingly apathetic. Besides, reported Maclean, it was pretty clear that Tito's Partisans were...
...More Royalist than the King. Paul-Henri Spaak's Socialists heard the speech in their conference room at the Maison du Peuple. Said one Socialist deputy: "A step forward toward national harmony." But the Socialists were making no decision until they learned how other parties interpreted the message. The Christian Socialists were divided, but the more-royalist-than-the-King faction could hardly hold out against the King's compromise...
...King had first blocked the general by naming Liberal Boss Sophocles Venizelos, son of the late great Eleutherios Venizelos, as Premier. This split the Liberals away from the coalition government planned by Venizelos and Plastiras, and favored by the U.S. Then followed maneuvers to line up right-wing royalist support behind Venizelos. U.S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady quickly threatened to withhold ECAid, implying that only a center coalition could govern Greece efficiently. After 23 frustrating days in office, Venizelos resigned, blaming his fall on "the Allied factor." This is a phrase frequently heard in Greece; it is the Greeks...