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...R.C.C. gave Nasser the new title of Military Governor (undisputed boss of the martial law now in effect in Egypt), to go with his ten-day-old title of Premier. But next day more dissension broke out among the Revolutionaries, and the R.C.C. rushed into emergency session at Army GHQ. One member left, muttering: "Naguib wants too much...
...first mission, a strafing run over the Thames estuary, that he forgot to fire at the target. But he soon tasted blood in Russia, flying alongside Stuka bombers as they chopped up Soviet columns. He was vastly enjoying the war when They-the anonymous, know-nothing They which is GHQ to every operational airman-shipped him back to Germany to patrol the North Sea. There Knoke learned that boredom is the first reality of war. He flew 100 patrols over grey, faceless ocean, with scarcely a sight of the British Blenheim bombers that were ranging the German coast...
...Back to GHQ. Last week, when students at Horns began rioting on schedule, and old Sultan Pasha el Atrash called in his subchieftains to plot trouble, Shishekly abandoned his gamble. He left the presidential palace, went to his desk at army GHQ and decreed martial...
...working politician, he has turned his attention to consolidating his position in his own party. Long ago, in 1936, he had begun to build a Herter machine, in the shabby old Republican Club on Boston's Tremont Street. The club became Herter GHQ, and after the election, the engine-block of the state organization. With most of his Republican peers (Saltonstall, Weeks, Lodge, Martin) removed from the local scene, Herter has already been able to lay to rest most doubts about who is boss...
...Alfred M. Gruenther, 42, was General McNair's left-hand man (young Brigadier General Mark Clark was his right) at the GHQ directors' group at Camp Polk. Gruenther became a lieutenant colonel during the maneuvers . . . Eisenhower says Gruenther is one of the best soldiers he has ever known-and so do dozens of other people. Gruenther is a thin, pale, frank officer who proves to be studious, well-informed and extremely well-liked . . . The knowing element in the Army is betting on the Eisenhower-Gruenther combination to swim to the top quickly...