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...arms?" Egypt's bloodthirsty Moslem Brotherhood vowed to "knock at the doors of heaven with the heads of the British." At Port Said, the northern entrance to the Suez Canal, student gangs looted stores, over turned a British ambulance, careened through a British army camp hurling "Salah-el-Din cocktails" (homemade fire bombs named for the Foreign Minister). Eleven British army vehicles were burned...
Hero of the hour was plump and platitudinous Mohammed Salah el Din, 49, Foreign Minister in Nahas Pasha's Wafd cabinet. Smiling Salah el Din is a dedicated nationalist with an extraordinarily sensitive skin (he breaks out in spots when exposed to Egypt's hot sunshine, never ventures outside without a protecting umbrella and gloves). His single-minded policy since his appointment last year: use every means-if necessary, threaten appeals to Russia-to get rid of those British and grab the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. To him, the Suez is dust in the enemy's eye; since...
...shall the responsible and thoughtful citizen be enabled to inform himself and think for himself in the glare and din of modern publicity? What is to prevent mass communication from creating a mass mind? The future of the democratic process depends on the solution of this problem...
...shall the responsible and thoughtful citizen be enabled to inform himself and think for himself in the glare and din of modern publicity? What is to prevent mass communication from creating a mass mind? The future of the democratic process depends on the solution of this problem...
...Serag el Din and Madame Nahas occasionally do the nightclub circuit around Cairo. This produces a set routine: just as they come to the side entrance, the lights have a habit of failing, then coming on as soon as they are safely seated behind a couple of partially obscuring potted palms...