Word: royalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Avanti, the Socialist newspaper, heard the story, started a front-page ruckus. Into the fray jumped the Actionist, Communist and Republican papers, screaming for the Duke's royal hide. Royalist supporters, lukewarm or less in their affection for the middle-aged bon vivant-whose amorous escapades had the Lido and Newport agog a decade ago-sat tight...
...rightist Hellenikon Aima quietly printed a confidential letter written by General Plastiras during the Italo-Greek War of 1940-41; in it he had urged German mediation. The leftist press decried this crafty revelation as a "royalist plot," warned that royalist officers were planning an armed coup and were using the letter to get Plastiras...
...Ambassador in London. This desertion of the shaky government of fat Francisco Franco came hard on the heels of the monarchist manifesto issued by the Spanish Pretender Don Juan (TIME, April 2). No one doubted that Alba-"Jimmie" to his British friends-would take a leading part in the royalist drive for power in Spain...
Thirty-six hours after royalist General Mario Roatta became a fugitive from Rome's anti-Fascist purge (TIME, March 12), the Communist newspaper, Unita, called upon Italians to demonstrate. To Colosseum Square marched 10,000 men & women. While red flags flapped from the walls that had once looked down on other gladiators. Socialist, Actionist and Communist orators shouted: "The monarchy must fall! We will not leave the streets till a republic is proclaimed...
...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...