Word: royalistic
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...there was a distressing interruption. Brilliant Academician Charles Maurras, the aged royalist, had been sentenced to life imprisonment for collaboration (TIME, Feb. 5). Should he be expelled? Heretofore, the old men had loftily disregarded such problems-one of their colleagues was Marshal Petain. But what had he to do with the letter...
Before a Lyons court stood the most famous collaborationist yet brought to trial in France-bearded, brilliant Charles Maurras, political anachronism, polemicist, poet, member of the French Academy, ex-editor of L'Action Française, and a royalist more royalist than France's Pretender, Henri VI (the exiled Henri of Bourbon-Orleans, Count of Paris). The little old man was 76 and stone deaf. All charges and questions had to be given him in writing...
...facing the Government's offices flocked several hundred angry men, sobbing women, for another of EAM's interminable demonstrations. But something had been added to the hammer-&-sickle pennants and sloganizing banners. The crowd carried three improvised litters, containing three bodies-still warm. Leftists charged the nationalist-royalist X-Battalion had killed the three men. The opposition charged that EAM members had disinterred three newly buried bodies, was using them for propaganda...
...liberated Lyons CBS's Eric Sevareid found and interviewed an anachronistic Frenchman whom the F.F.I. would give a good deal to find. Charles Maurras, 76, editor of the Royalist Action Fran false, diehard antirepublican and brilliant man of letters, was hiding from F.F.I, vengeance. Wrote Sevareid...
...cabinet. Young Venizelos was afraid that the supple premier was playing too close to Britain and the cause of Greek monarchy. He was also afraid that the Leftist EAM (Greek Committee of Liberation) representatives who had finally agreed to come to Cairo would balk at entering a pronouncedly royalist cabinet. So Sophocles resigned, figuring that from six to nine of his disgruntled fellow ministers would follow his lead and that Papandreou would...