Word: anglo-egyptian
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...actually Benito Mussolini-the Dictator buttered the Egyptians with many blandishments while he was making for Ethiopia (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935 et seq.)- who convinced the British that if they are to retain effective control of Egypt they must do so even more unobtrusively. Thus a new Anglo-Egyptian Treaty was signed by Premier Nahas and Mr. Anthony Eden on cream-colored parchment tied with blue ribbons at the British Foreign Office (TIME, Sept...
When British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden signed the Anglo-Egyptian treaty in the magnificent "Locarno Room" of the British Foreign Office (TIME, Sept. 7) he intimated that Britain was no longer Egypt's boss but her "partner." As an earnest of good will the British Government promised to urge at Geneva admission of Egypt to the League of Nations, promised to ask eleven other States, which like Britain have long enjoyed extraterritorial rights ("capitulations") for their citizens in Egypt, to surrender them...
Pasha was pleased to learn that Mr. Baldwin is prepared to withdraw British troops from Cairo shortly and haul down the British flag from its citadel. He is further prepared to withdraw "gradually" large British forces now at Alexandria and elsewhere in Egypt. According to a new Anglo-Egyptian treaty undergoing final negotiations this week, defense of the Suez...
Sting No. 1. The British were blandly asked to provide Haile Selassie with "safe conduct" back to Ethiopia through the backstairs route of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a most embarrassing request which Mr. Coison made not privately to Mr. Eden but by whispering it among Geneva correspondents. His story was that one of the Emperor's sons is already trying to get back through the Sudan, encountering "trouble" from the British...
...free, independent and sovereign Kingdom." there are three powers in that ancient country: Britain, the Egyptian King and the overwhelmingly popular Wafd Party. Of these three, any combination of two is possible. Britain and Fuad combined to suppress the Wafd; Britain and the Wafd combined to clip Fuad's autocratic powers; Fuad and the Wafd combined to defy Britain. Last week the death of King Fuad cut short the deliberations of delegations of Britons and Egyptians engaged in drawing up a new Anglo-Egyptian treaty giving Egypt a few new privileges and confirming Britain's military strangle hold...