Word: royaliste
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...expense, on the benefits of National Socialism. He demanded that Vichy take stronger measures against resisters. The testimony showed that he had become embittered against the-prewar French Gov ernment because it preferred the German nitrogen process to his own, that he was a close friend of Royalist Leader Charles Maurras. After the Allied landing in North Africa, he tried to commit suicide by swallowing a heavy dose of strychnine...
Avanti, the Socialist newspaper, heard the story, started a front-page ruckus. Into the fray jumped the Actionist, Communist and Republican papers, screaming for the Duke's royal hide. Royalist supporters, lukewarm or less in their affection for the middle-aged bon vivant-whose amorous escapades had the Lido and Newport agog a decade ago-sat tight...
...rightist Hellenikon Aima quietly printed a confidential letter written by General Plastiras during the Italo-Greek War of 1940-41; in it he had urged German mediation. The leftist press decried this crafty revelation as a "royalist plot," warned that royalist officers were planning an armed coup and were using the letter to get Plastiras...
...Ambassador in London. This desertion of the shaky government of fat Francisco Franco came hard on the heels of the monarchist manifesto issued by the Spanish Pretender Don Juan (TIME, April 2). No one doubted that Alba-"Jimmie" to his British friends-would take a leading part in the royalist drive for power in Spain...
Thirty-six hours after royalist General Mario Roatta became a fugitive from Rome's anti-Fascist purge (TIME, March 12), the Communist newspaper, Unita, called upon Italians to demonstrate. To Colosseum Square marched 10,000 men & women. While red flags flapped from the walls that had once looked down on other gladiators. Socialist, Actionist and Communist orators shouted: "The monarchy must fall! We will not leave the streets till a republic is proclaimed...