Word: royalistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what to do about the Emperor Charles's attempt to regain the Hungarian throne. Republicanism ran against the Count's aristocratic grain, but he knew that a Habsburg restoration would provoke Allied intervention. So he approved the dispatch of troops that repulsed Charles and his Royalist forces when they attempted to reach Budapest in October 1921, earned the title, "the man who fired on his King...
...first time have read your newspapers and heard on the air that I am, at the very least, an ogre - a consorter with communists, a destroyer of the rich, a breaker of our ancient traditions. You think of me perhaps as the inventor of the economic royalist, of the wicked utilities, of the money changers of the temple. You have heard for six years that I was about to plunge the nation into war; that you and your little brothers would be sent to the bloody fields of battle in Europe; that I was driving the nation into bankruptcy...
...much funnier to draw." Patent-leather smooth, dark, fat, affable J. Sennep's real name is Jean-Jacques Charles Pennes. One brother, General Roger Pennes, is a bigwig in the Air Ministry. After serving through the War in the infantry, Jean Pennes went to work for the Royalist Action Francaise, was first assigned to cover Communist meetings at Garches, ten and a half miles outside of Paris. His resentment at this chore he worked off in cartoons, soon changed his typewriter for a pen and his name around backwards...
Even after the news was out Beaverbrook insisted on "restraint" from his own editors and cartoonists. His explanation when asked about this was: "I am a royalist." He is also a Presbyterian (the Bible is read to him by .a subordinate each evening). But above all he is an Empire...
...purchase munitions of war, denied to Spain by England and France in the face of opposition of the aggressive dictators, was respected by other countries, including Russia. The Spanish Republic did not become communist because it bought arms from communist Russia any more than the American colonies became royalist because they obtained aid from royalist France. To call the Spanish Loyalists "Reds" and "communists" is current fashion, but quite unjustifiable. In the bandying of prejudicial epithets, now in vogue, the Medical Bureau has been defined by a New England journal as "a bolshevist organization with headquarters in Moscow." Lest...