Word: royalistic
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...Argentine. These pampas ragamuffins vary from the romantic Douglas Fairbanks variety to the bloody, vengeful Facundo of actual life, brutally characterized in a sketch by Argentine's great man Sarmiento. Again, in "Death of a Gaucho," one of these wild plainsmen is a mad patriot, storming a hundred Royalist soldiers in the night and dying slowly of numberless swordcuts with a muttered "Vive la patria." This last story is fiercely harsh and colorful...
Orated Count Aladar Zichy, Royalist leader...
Foremost pretender to the French "throne" is the Duc de Guise, head of the house of Orleans, leader of the Royalist party. Like all pretenders, the Due de Guise is automatically and forever banished from the soil of the Republic. There is another pretender-"Louis XIX, head of the house of Bourbon"-whose claim has not seemed serious enough to warrant his exile but whose activities landed him last week in police court...
...Czechoslovakia. Old world diplomats studying the case grinned in their beards, figuratively doffed their cocked hats to dowdy, indomitable Zita of Bourbon-Parme, ex-Empress of Austria-Hungary. In the baggage of the clerk and the mendicant monk (Felix Christian and Father Charles Otto by name) were some typical royalist pamphlets. More interesting were bundles and bundles of membership blanks for a League of Prayer the object of which is the formal beatification of the ex-Habsburg Emperor Karl I, indomitable Zita's late husband...
...least loyal sections of the loose-jointed; Austro-Hungarian Empire. Indomitable Zita has not given up all hope of winning back Austria. The best she can expect from Czechoslovakia is a sort of benevolent neutrality. Hence her League of Prayer and the proposed beatification of her husband.* For months Royalist agents and pro-Habsburg priests have been circulating petitions to the Vatican, among the devout, recounting stories of miracles occurring near Karl's tomb in the Church of the Madonna del Monte at Funchal, Madeira. Czechoslovakian Catholics, such is the royalist reasoning, may not want to rejoin Hungary...