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...There would be no Chief of Staff of all the armed forces (who, it had been feared, might become "a man on horseback"); the Joint Chiefs would remain the top military directors; there would be a Council of Common Defense and a National Security Resources Board, as proposed in Ferdinand Eberstadt's Navy plan...
...conquerors. Only the day before, another king had sailed out of the same harbor, bound for voluntary exile in Egypt.* The world could read the disgrace of the House of Savoy in the titles that the abdicated Italian king had just shed from his thin, aging shoulders - Vittorio Emanuele (Ferdinand Maria Gennaro) III, King of Italy and Sardinia (1900-46) and Albania (1939-43); Emperor of Ethiopia (May 1939 November 1943); also King of Cyprus, of Jerusalem, of Armenia-ancient honors meaningless these many centuries...
...classrooms and bistros of the Latin Quarter swarmed the students of Paris. If the people did not know France's overwhelming need, the students did-unity behind a towering political figure. If the people did not know the towering figure, the students did-high-domed Ferdinand Lop, teacher, editor, poet, political scientist and perennial Latin Quarter candidate for president...
Other speakers followed. "We want unity," they shouted. "But we admit opposition-only, of course, to the point where it does not manifest itself. That is democracy. . . . For 15 years Ferdinand Lop, as he took off his pants at night, envisaged taking power the next day. Every morning, as he pulled on his socks, he was no closer to holding power. You must admit that such a man with the same idea for 15 years is not normal. That is why we who are normal follow...
Named chairman was Eugene Emerson '38, former varsity hockey player and member of the CRIMSON business board. Frank Ferdinand '43 and Philip E. Northway '49 were designated secretary and treasurer respectively...