Word: beys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arabs was the fact that, when chips were down in the U.N., the U.S. and Britain sided with France and against the North African nationalists. Emboldened by its victory, Paris locked up the remaining nationalist leaders in Tunis and Morocco, then put the squeeze on the reluctant Bey of Tunis...
Moslem sovereigns, the Bey of Tunis (1881) and the Sultan of Morocco (1912). Last week the French cabinet decided that it would "accept no [outside] interference in these questions which relate essentially to the national competence of France...
...palaces become museums like Versailles, so that the people might see what lavish living went on near some of the world's slummiest slums. The new de facto ruler of Egypt, General Mohammed Naguib, and his hand-picked Premier, Aly Maher, decreed the abolition of the titles of bey and pasha (roughly equivalent to sir and lord). "Call me Hadretkom [mister]," urged an aging pasha on hearing the news...
...married and divorced raven-haired Empress Fawzia, Farouk's beautiful younger sister. She is now married to Ismail Shirene Bey. Farouk's attempt to make his brother-in-law War Minister was the final spark that set off last week's army revolt...
...Bey said, however, that he has complete faith in the work done on the cultural and economic levels of the UN. But it will be centuries, he added, before the East and the West have sufficient cultural basis to settle any political questions...