Word: anglo-egyptian
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Before a mass meeting in Alexandria, El Nahas Pasha cried, "The colonizers [Great Britain] must know that Egypt's patience is exhausted, and that she will attain her rights, whatever the obstacles." He chose the week of the i sth anniversary of the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936 (which still has five years to run) to denounce it. It "must be canceled and will be, in a very short time," he said, and the crowd cheered wildly. Al Midoa, weekly newspaper of Nahas Pasha's Wafdist Party, roared: "We do not believe that the Egyptian nation is less...
Threatening Hint. Egypt's Foreign Minister, meanwhile, hinted that, unless Britain removed her troops now guarding the Suez Canal and completely quit the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Cairo would denounce the mutual defense pact between Egypt and Britain, which still has five years...
When King Farouk of Egypt called for cancellation of the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of alliance he probably intended only to please his subjects, who were then engaged in their national pastime of baying at Britain. But Farouk's outburst had consequences he had not foreseen. Last week in London, 32-year-old Labor M.P. Woodrow Wyatt decided that Egypt probably was not a very reliable ally anyway and demanded that Britain's Labor Government stop selling arms to the Egyptians, beginning with a shipment of 16 new Centurion tanks just about to be delivered...
...years later Ted Farley, now Cat's vice president in charge of special projects, went to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He found some Englishmen working a cotton field with a dragline plow operated by a gasoline engine. Like Botts, he had Cat ship him a couple of its prize tractors. But by the time he got to the plantation, the Englishmen were using a German-made diesel engine-and had slashed their costs...
...first crucial test of U.N. power in months took more definite shape-yesterday, as the 11 nations of the Security Council jockeyed for positions on the Anglo-Egyptian dispute over the presence of British troops on the Nile River. Two Egyptian demonstrators, who previously had disturbed the Council's sessions, were barred from further proceedings by Secretary-General Trygve...