Word: monarchist
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Before the civil war Madrid had 16 daily newspapers. Last week Madrid had four. Latest of the long list of Spanish papers suppressed by powerful Minister of the Interior Ramón Serrano Suñer was the once-great A. B. C., which stayed Monarchist...
Meanwhile, while El Caudillo publicly attended victory parades here & there throughout Spain, he was privately attending to internal troubles: > The struggle between monarchists and fascists reappeared, and the royalists received a setback when Minister of Education Pedro Sainz Rodriguez, an ardent monarchist, was dismissed from his post. He was also deprived of his membership in Spain's only political party and of his seat in the national council of the party. Evidently Senor Sainz had urged restoration of the monarchy too emphatically...
...great white flag was hoisted.From the 16-story Telefonica, Madrid's tallest building, the red-&-gold banner of the old Monarchy, now the Franco flag, invited the conquerors in. The weary Loyalist defenders backed out of their trenches, leaving their arms behind. From scattered balconies draped old Monarchist flags, mantillas with Bourbon emblems...
...true that Louis XVI's ministers wore a trench to his door. "This Morning," runs a typical entry, "employ myself in preparing a Form of Government for this Country." He was mistaken in his methods, blinded by vanity and ignorance of the French common people. But Morris' Monarchist sympathies were far from enthusiastic...
...office of President was created, oddly enough, by a monarchist bloc in 1875. They wanted a job which could easily be turned into a throne. Theoretically the President has great powers, actually none. He is elected to a seven-year term and can succeed himself, but only one President has tried. He is expected to be seen rather than heard. He plays host to foreign notables, receives ambassadors, launches ships, opens hospitals, unveils war monuments, throws parties for poor children, meddles not at all in politics. He gets $47,700 salary a year, an equal amount for expenses...