Word: royalistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week for the first Spanish Parliament in seven years returned President Alcala Zamora (as a Deputy from Saragossa) and every member of his Cabinet. Numerous parties entered candidates, but as foreseen, conservative Republicans and moderate Socialists swept the boards. Communists made no progress. The only districts that showed Royalist strength were medieval Navarre, whose sympathies are not for Alfonso but his 60-year-old cousin, the Carlist Pretender Don Jaime; and Guadelajara, pocket borough of wrinkled canny Count de Romanones who used to dandle Alfonso XIII on his knee. Enthusiasti- cally returned was Foreign Minister Alejandro Lerroux, whose power...
...evening 300 Royalist students marched toward the Chamber shouting "Death to Briand." They were quickly dispersed. The real attack came inside the Chamber, not outside, and it was not aimed at M. Briand's life. Hour by hour, as the day approached when the National Assembly must choose a new President of France, gruff, sleepy-eyed Br'er Briand loomed larger & larger as leading candidate. His enemies selected a shock squadron of eight orators under Deputy Henry Franklin-Bouillon to blast...
First move was to make another of those sober, resigned, high minded statements which are so useful in re-establishing the prestige of deposed monarchs. This one was given to the world by Marques de Luca de Tena, editor of the Royalist Madrid daily, A. B. C. Said King Alfonso to Marques de Tena...
Second move was to hold a series of lengthy secret conferences in Paris, send the Marques de Tena hotfoot off to Madrid to beg the various Royalist groups in Spain to forget their differences for the time being and present a united front in the forthcoming June elections under that weepy eyed, white whiskered old gentleman, Jose Sanchez Guerra, Prime Minister shortly before the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera...
...June. Three things, said he, may split the Republicans, make possible a restoration of the monarchy in the not too near future: the growth of Communism and Syndicalism, the separation of Catalonia and the Basque provinces, an unpopular Moroccan policy. But to start the ball rolling, a united Royalist front is imperative...