Word: corruptibles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 70 years ago, a reform-minded general named Arabi Pasha led his brother officers in overthrowing a corrupt Egyptian government. After a sharp look at the crusading officers, England's great colonizer, Lord Milner, wrote: "It is possible to approve their aims and yet to disbelieve entirely in their capacity to carry them out." Eight months after he took power, Arabi fell, unable to control the forces he had unleashed...
...Mohammed Naguib has done a good job: changed the laws to encourage foreign capital; refused to reconvene the Parliament, which the corrupt Wafd Party dominates; freed the press, abolished censorship, the secret police and titles of nobility. He has vowed to limit the size of landholdings and to attack "indirect taxes whose burdens fall on the poor...
Seventy-three-year-old Nahas Pasha (now to be known simply as Mustafa el Nahas). who bosses Egypt's biggest political party, the corrupt Wafd, broke off a Swiss vacation at the news of Naguib's coup. He boarded a plane for the first time in his life and hastened to Naguib's side, crying: "It is my duty to pay a visit to the savior of the country." They talked for an hour and when they emerged. Nahas, catching sight of waiting photographers, cagily hooked elbows with Naguib and flashed his winning smile. But two days...
...year-olds, had failed on both counts. Both intervened to save their countries from nationalist fanatics, whose extremism threatened civil war. But Farouk's interventions, though courageous, were fitful; the Shah's too timid. Farouk, famed for yachts, gambling and women, lost his popular support to the corrupt Wafd Party; he antagonized his army by failing to clean out the extortionists in his own palace...
...advocates (if there are any) of completely unregulated capitalism and those of state socialism. Social justice can be realized, he wrote, neither by "the free play of blind economic forces" nor by "an oppressive, omnipotent weighing down on the legitimate autonomy of private initiative." ¶ The Holy Office condemned "corrupt and errant forms of sacred art." Warned the Holy Office: "Of no moment are the objections raised by some that sacred art must be adapted to the necessities and conditions of the present times. For sacred art, which originated with Christian society, possesses its own ends, from which...