Word: royalistic
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...Army Corps. He knew that even tougher War Minister General George Kondylis would soon be after him. In the last election fierce, waxed-mustached General Kondylis had 34 of his henchmen elected Deputies on the straight Republican ticket, then abruptly informed them that henceforth they were to be ardent Royalists hot to restore Georgios II. Moving fast last week Republican General Panayotakos surrounded Athens with troops he thought he could trust, burst into a Cabinet meeting. Instantly the Royalist War Minister ordered him arrested, a Greek sentry stabbed him in the jaw, and he would have been shot down like...
This oath does not mean what it says, wily Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris was at pains to explain. The deputies, mostly henchmen of Premier Tsaldaris' so-called Government Party, were elected by Greeks who suspected M. Tsaldaris of being secretly Royalist but thought they could trust him to uphold the Greek Republic 53 demanded by the official oath. Explaining it glibly away, last week Royalist Tsaldaris declared: "The words 'Parliamentary Republic' do not need to be changed because a Republican Government is not necessarily without a King." The Tsaldaris Government next decided that between Sept...
...Athens, meanwhile, a Royalist deputy introduced a bill to pay 1,000,000 drachmas ($9,500) to any Greek who assassinates the exiled "Father of the Greek Republic," famed Eleutherios Venizelos. In Paris the bodyguard of M. Venizelos was instantly doubled. Summoning reporters, M. Venizelos dipped frequently into a Greek-English and English-Greek dictionary to find epithets vehement enough to denounce Georgios and the Royalists...
...back & forth on his bald head, to rest now on his neck, now on the bridge of his nose. "I had announced my retirement, but if the ex-King dares to return, I shall return to the political arena, resolved to save my country from the tyranny of a royalist dictatorship...
...suddenly to life. He would, he said, be glad to receive a process server any time, because now he intended to challenge in a New York Federal Court SEC's right to subpoena him or to regulate the issuance and sale of his securities. Cried the blond oil royalist...