Word: royalistic
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...democrat knows that reaction, monarchism, and fascism are futile as defenses against communism. Only democracy can fight for democracy. The Royalist government of Greece, elected by fear, force, and fraud, supported by terror and concentration camps, staffed by stooges of the late dictator Metaxas and the Nazis, is no democracy and cannot fight for democracy...
...Gramatikakis Panayotis, a Spartan lawyer, told how a band of extreme right-wing X-ites* broke into his house last May. "We were dining at about 11 at night, when five or six men came into the house. They killed my brother, who was a royalist though I am a leftist, broke my sister's arm, my mother's arm, wounded me in the leg, wounded another sister in the cheek. Now we live with relatives, six in one room...
...endless, petty testimonies) by obtaining unanimous agreement to limit witnesses' time to one hour, and by sending field teams to the troubled northern border. Greece at last had a coalition Government. The new Premier, in place of Tsaldaris, was frail, ailing ex-Banker Demetrios Maximos, a nonparty ex-royalist. The new Government, promising to review the case of all political prisoners, made a start by releasing women & children. But civil strife, which had slackened after the U.N. commission's arrival, flared up again, this time farther south than before; Communists boldly raided the Sparta prison, freed 200 prisoners...
When the Germans pulled out and Communists' excesses had revived waning royalist sympathies, the Greeks, by fair and overwhelming vote, asked George to come back from his wartime exile. But they have heard no inspiring words from him since his return last September. For days after his restoration, George paced the floor of his sparsely furnished, silk-paneled study, trying to find a way of broadening Greece's rightist Government under Dino Tsaldaris. When Tsaldaris and the centrists refused to compromise, advisers urged the King to intervene. But at this point, "he who does not laugh" was back...
...hour last summer. He never bothered much about other gains, such as safety devices and hospitalization, although he paid such things lip service. When the Government seized the mines last spring he wrung from it a 5?-per-ton royalty for a welfare fund. The major objective of Economic Royalist Lewis has always been higher wages. Although his new demands were not officially made public, they embraced a shortened week and a higher rate which would boost the hourly wage to about $1.88. He wanted the 5? royalty doubled...