Word: royalistic
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...Left would lose heavily, partly on account of Communist capers with M. André Tardieu (TIME, May 5) and Prince Murat (see under). The Moderate Left, under the able leadership of Edouard Herriot, Socialist Mayor of Lyons, was considered likely to strengthen its position. The Extreme Right, led by Royalist Leon Daudet, was expected to lose many seats...
...thing upon which French Royalists and Bolsheviki can agree is that France needs a dictator, but neither can agree upon the person. L'Action Française, Paris royalist journal, in advocating the Duc d'Orléans, said: "The example of Italy shows clearly what a real leader can do and what a Parliament cannot do. We ask you to make the Parliament understand that we need a leader, and the leader we need, in the estimation of L'Action Française, must be the hereditary leader, consequently the legitimate heir to the 40 Kings...
...world of the establishment of a republic under the provisional presidency of Admiral Koundouriotis.* ¶ The result of the recent plebiscite (TIME, April 21), held to confirm the establishment by force of a republican government, was 758,742 republican votes and 352,322 for the monarchy. ¶ The Royalists charged that many of their voters had been coerced by Republicans, and this charge was not denied. A Royalist agitation for new elections began but had small hope of success. ¶ The Royalist journal Politia acknowledged that "we are beaten, and we think that for reasons of supreme national necessity...
...members of the Cabinet, Nationalist throngs sang Deutschland Ober Alles. A forest of flags surrounded the cortege, and bore the anti-Jewish swastika cross, old Monarchist and Prussian flags, death's head flags with the motto Mit Gott für Kaiser und der Vaterland. As the royalist hymns arose, adjacent factories and warehouses were lined with workers, stenographers and pale-faced girls who struck up the Communist Internationale in competition with the blare of the Reischswehr bands...
...sincerity of this amnesty will be the acid test of the new Ministry. On the other hand the Royalists are suspected of ulterior motives, as the famed General Metaxas, former Royailst general in the ill-fated Asia Minor campaigns against Mustafa Kemal, and leader of last autumn's Royalist coup d'état, is now at liberty to reenter Greek politics...