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Bonomi & Co. paid no attention to the House of Savoy. Crown Prince Umberto, who had just taken over nominal rule (as Lieutenant-General of the Realm) from his father, Vittorio Emanuele III, heard about the new Government after it was formed. The new ministers swore fealty to the nation, not to the crown...
...stately House of Lords, peers of the realm huffed & puffed at the Government's bill to provide equal education for all. Ignoring the democracy of death in Normandy, crusty Lord Buckmaster said: "Take a boy in an elementary [public] school and whip him for something he has done and all too often he goes whining to his mother. . . . Take a boy in a public [private] school and flog him, perhaps for something he has not done, and one never hears a word about it." R. W. Sorensen, Labor Member of the House of Commons, announced that he would...
...Rome, the Little King turned over his powers (but not his title) to his son, 36-year-old Crown Prince Umberto. At least until the U.S. and Britain keep their promise, give Italians a chance to choose their own government, the Crown Prince will rule as Lieutenant of the Realm...
...very well for CBS to talk: it was RCA-NBC, General Electric and others who were holding the television bag. They manufacture equipment; CBS does not. Last week their spokesman. Television Broadcasters Assn. Inc., put CBS's proposal "in the realm of speculation," announced that present standards were good enough for a postwar start...
...have decided to withdraw from public affairs by appointing my son, the Prince of Piedmont, Lieutenant General of the Realm [TIME, April 17]. This appointment will become effective by a formal transfer of power on the day on which the Allied troops enter Rome. This decision ... is final and irrevocable...