Word: egypt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, nearly seven and a half years later, the veteran Earl of Bal- four (Arthur James Balfour ennobled) set forth from the land of his ancestors for the Holy Land. Some days later, he arrived at Alex- andria, Egypt's greatest seaport. Thence went he to Cairo, the capi- tal, where he entered a special railway car provided by the Palestine Government and was whisked off across the Suez Canal to Palestine, land of two religions: Judaism, Christianity.* Lord Balfour went to Jerusalem, direct to Government House on the Mount of Olives. On a spur of the Mount...
Interviewed on the political situation, ex-Premier Zaghlul was calm, said: "It is simply this, that constitutional government in Egypt has temporarily ended. Both dissolution of the chamber and the proposed modification by decree of the electoral law. . . are utter unconstitutional...
...difference between the policies of Zaghlul and Premier Ziwar is one of method. Both aim at the independence of Egypt and the Sudan. The former tries to get it by boldness; the latter by friendly cooperation with Britain...
...Reisner will speak at 4.15 in the Lecture Room of the Museum about his experiences in Egypt. He will out line the recent discoveries made by the Harvard-Boston expedition of which he has been in charge for more than ten years...
Another aspect of the case concerns King Fuad, who, by appointing Ziwar Pasha Premier last Autumn, definitely ranged himself against Zaghlul, whom he has never liked. According to current report in Cairo, Zaghlul intended to depose the monarchy and declare Egypt a republic in the event that he received a majority of the votes in the past election...