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...bloc of other PAR deputies, embarrassed at what they called Pace's "indiscretion," hastily removed him from the party's secretary-generalship. In his place they named Julio Estrada de la Hoz, a member of Guatemala's U.N. delegation. But Estrada de la Hoz, in the judgment of most Guatemalan political observers, is well to the left of Paco Fernandez...
...poses some intriguing iffy questions about history. First question: "What might have happened if Robert E. Lee had accepted Lincoln's offer to command the Union Army?" After consultation with Columbia Historian Allan Nevins, veteran Radio-TV Writer Mort Lewis decided that Lee's generalship would have ended the Civil War two years sooner, thus leading to an earlier assassination of Lincoln and Lee's election as President. Other Stroke of Fate teasers: Suppose Montcalm had defeated Wolfe at Quebec, Hamilton had killed Burr in their duel, Hitler had been killed in the Munich beer-hall Putsch...
Nazimuddin protested that the Governor General had no right to sack him, and perhaps Nazimuddin had a point. Ghulam Mohammad succeeded to the governor-generalship when Nazimuddin stepped down in 1951. Now that Ghulam Mohammad had the title, however, he was Queen Elizabeth's official representative in the British Dominion of Pakistan and in the theory of British government has the monarch's delegated power to dismiss or appoint ministers and governments (in England, no monarch since the days of George III had dared invoke that power without the sanction of Parliament). Pakistan, however, is a special case...
Claret & Crystal. War's end brought Templer full generalship, knighthood, and elevation to the Imperial General Staff. But his proudest preferment is his colonelcy of the Royal Irish Fusiliers...
...however, he swung 35 of Michigan's 46 votes to Ike and played a major role in lining up Pennsylvania's votes for the general. The day after Eisenhower's nomination, he was appointed chairman of the Republican National Committee, traditional stepping-stone to the postmaster generalship. Unlike most of his predecessors, however, Summerfield will resign his political job, plans to concern himself primarily with the postal service and leave the dispensing of patronage to his successor on the National Committee...