Word: royalistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumors are circulating through Austria that the Hapsburgs may be restored and a monster mass meeting of royalists was held in Vienna to which Chanceller Dollfuss gave his official blessing. Unfortunately, blessing his loving subjects will not be of much avail to little Dollfuss at this point; the royalist activities are not so indicative of Hapsburg as of Starhemberg strength. As might have been foreseen when Dollfusa surrendered to the Heimwher, his power is very shortly due to be curtailed and eventually to be abolished completely. Aside from the fact that the very organization of the Fascist party--which...
Jean III. Scrawls of VIVE LE ROI! on walls and sidewalks and roaring young Royalists swinging loaded canes were not lost upon a very tall, very dignified exile in Belgium. Two days after the bloodiest fighting the Royalist newspaper Action Française published a manifesto that had come by special courier from Brussels...
...June, 1830, no one suspected that by the end of the month Charles X would be fleeing from Paris and his government collapsed. A week ago not even the most optimistic royalist would have predicted that the resentment of the people at the Stavisky affair would attain its present proportions: yet yesterday, the Parisian revolt began to resemble a national revolution both in violence and in extent. A week ago the question was whether or not the Chautemps government would get a vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies; today there is serious doubt if the Republic itself...
...duel, but the Government grew so nervous as debate on the Stavisky scandal was resumed that 5,000 foot and mounted police were thrown around the Chamber of Deputies. Angry citizens resumed their anti-Government demonstrations, shouted hour after hour in the direction of the Chamber "Assassins! Thieves! Staviskys!" Royalist demonstrators shouting "Down with the Republic!" and "Long live the Due de Guise!" [the Bourbon pretender to the Throne of France who lives in Belgium] smashed windows, tore up paving stones which they hurled at the police and thoroughly frightened U. S. tourists in a nearby hotel...
...French Royalist exiles introduced seduction as a fine art, adultery as a vocation. Marie Leveau spied a rich field for blackmail...