camarilla

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One result: today, the old, meddling palace camarilla which made and unmade Premiers in backstairs intrigues is gone.

From Time Magazine Archive

He assembled a little camarilla of army officers and aristocrats and last winter began making secret trips to Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive

When President von Hindenburg dropped BrÜning, who had been his protege, the German military camarilla which had maneuvered BrÜning out suggested von Papen to the ancient President, who made him his new protege.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Count turned away, and his eye fell upon Federico, who, seeing resistance useless, stood passive in the custody of several of the camarilla.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various

The Kaiser can only convince the world of his innocence of the crime of his Potsdam camarilla by giving the world the text of any advice he gave the Austrian officials.

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe by Various