Word: egypt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Girl mothers are dying like flies in Egypt and Persia through the lack of necessary legislation. In other countries girls are denied equal opportunities for education. Again, in many countries women are having a terrific fight for the vote. Yet the Woman's Party would make the issue of equal industrial rights of paramount importance under such conditions. It is ridiculous...
Human slavery exists today in Abyssinia, Tibet, Afghanistan, the Hejaz, Morocco, Tripoli, the Libyan Desert, Rio de Oro, Liberia, China, Arabia, Egypt, the Sudan, Eritrea, French, British and Italian Somaliland, Angola and Mozambique, in most independent Mohammedan States, and in Nepal and the Philippines...
Lank taut-waisted fighters, urbane yet steely-eyed diplomats, suave but ruthless statesmen-these are the overlords that Britain sends to cow subject peoples. Such is George Ambrose Lloyd, Baron Lloyd, British High Commissioner to Egypt-a so-called "independent state" whose King, Fuad I, reigns though he does not rule...
...became the first native Premier of Egypt in 1924. He resigned (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924) upon the exaction by Britain from the Egyptian Government of a £500,000 ($2,300,000) "fine" and other humiliating concessions because of the asassination by seven Egyptian students of Sir Lee Stack, Governor General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan...
...hero of the party which won last week's election in Egypt...