Word: royalistic
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...coup expenses." Tango Interrupted. The coup itself had been orderly (one of the plotters described it as "very straightforward and very kind-hearted") but a little hard for Westerners to understand. The first point to get straight is that all Siamese politics turns around the rivalry between royalist Field Marshal Phibun (pronounced "fee bun") Songgram and republican Pridi Banomyong, who both went to school in France in the 1920s. The coup simply put Phibun's men in, tossed Pridi Banomyong...
...Loyal Opposition joined forces to wish her luck and congratulate her on her "unerring graciousness." Communist William Gallacher refused to join the motion. "I cannot forget," he said, "that on the day this engagement was announced, thousands of Greek citizens were thrown into the prison camps of the reactionary Royalist Greek Government," but he was soon shouted down with cries of "sit down...
...doctor was State Department Career Man Loy Wesley Henderson, who was dispatched to Greece two weeks ago. He found that Royalist Constantine Tsaldaris, who has strong dictatorial leanings, had been entrusted by King Paul to form a new Cabinet (TIME, Sept. 1). Liberal Leader Themistocles Sophoulis refused to serve under him, so Tsaldaris said he would go it alone. Henderson put his foot down, delivered what amounted to an ultimatum. Tsaldaris then stepped down to the job of Vice Premier. Sophoulis became the head of the new Cabinet. The most unsavory of the Royalists were...
Long self-professed an Anglo-Catholic, a royalist, and a classicist, Eliot has been an uncommonly revolutionary conservative, both as poet and critic. Now he made clear that, in some respects, he regards the revolution as over. He was even convinced that poets can now study Milton's poetry with profit. Said...
...life of the stately house half a mile down Brattle Street is virtually over, no one should weep, for it has been an abnormally long life. Built in 1759 by a young Royalist, the house was confiscated by the American government fifteen years later, when the owner, after a life of unhappy splendor, fled to the besieged British in Boston. It wasn't long before the nucleus of the American Navy moved in, a bunch of fishermen from Marblehead. They messed the place up pretty badly, and Washington, deciding to move in from his undesirable quarters in Wadsworth House...