Word: royalist
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...Greece, despite the Communist-led (| EAM's bitter boycott of the nation's first elections in ten years, some 70% of the electorate voted. Under the eyes of British troops and Allied observers, they gave the Populist (Royalist) Party an edge over the Republican (center) coalition. Spokesmen for the EAM. which a year ago had seemed unquestionably Greece's most popular faction, blustered: "There'll be another round...
...painfully felt a new, hostile attitude. It was rumored that Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Fitz-James Stuart Falco, Duke of Alba (Britain's Duke of Berwick), the Duchess of Medina Sidonia, the Duke of Medinaceli and others were fined a half million pesetas for signing a royalist manifesto. It was fact that Alba and five more "ceased" to be members of the Cortes, that royalist officials were fired, that royalist university professors were assaulted by Falangist students...
...Generalissimo's grip on the Army tightened. Royalist Lieut. General Alfredo Kindelan was ordered off to "confinement" in the Canaries, where once the Republic had tried to confine Franco. Franco's old friend Lieut. General Juan Vigon Suerodiaz moved into the Chief of Staff post. Command of the Valladolid region went to Don Juan's unfriendly cousin, Francisco Bourbon, Duke of Seville...
...trend was the size of Georges Bidault's brand-new Mouvement Républicain Populaire in France. Its moderate progressivism attracted both Breton fisherfolk and Parisian shopkeepers. The strong religious base of the M.R.P. was not the prewar political Catholic group, which descended from the Royalist, anti-Dreyfusard reactionaries; the M.R.P. drew its ideology from the liberal social justice encyclicals of Leo XIII and Pius XI. In economics it was left of the U.S. New Deal; but in political outlook it had much in common with Thomas Jefferson...
...eternal voice in the national community." But it permitted that voice to speak only in favor of the present regime-i.e., "so long as [ideas] do not illegally attack the fundamental principles of the state." On the very day Franco issued his decree, Madrid was swamped by royalist leaflets. Promptly, the city buzzed with rumors of widespread arrests. Freedom under Franco was still a castle in Spain...