Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Egypt. Contrary to expectations (TIME, Dec. 1 et seq.), the recent Egyptian imbroglio was not discussed. Egyptians in Rome, however, tried successfully to get their case before the Council...
...Egyptian protest was apparently a circular telegram sent by the Egyptian Lower House to the other Parliaments and to the League, and it did not therefore fall within the limits...
...British, however, handed over all the prisoners to the Egyptian judicial authorities. The Government issued a communique to the people urging them to be calm and saying in part: "The public, however, must also consider the grave and exceptional motives, leaving the Government to interpret the Constitution in a manner which, though justified by legal reasons, appears at first sight to restrict Parliamentary rights. The Government is obliged to take account not only of the gravity of the accusations against the Deputies concerned, but also of the necessity of safeguarding, as far as is still possible, the independence...
Revolt. Two platoons of the Eleventh Sudanese Regiment at Khartum in the Sudan mutinied, started to march to Gordon College. Near the Egyptian military hospital in the Khedivial Avenue they bumped into two platoons of a British Egyptian regiment; both came to a halt. The British officer went forward, exhorted the Sudanese to obey orders, but the Sudanese refused. At this moment the acting Sirdar, Colonel Huddleston, rode up and went forward in front of the British troops to urge sanity on the Sudanese. But the Sudanese merely declined to recognize the Sirdar. Orders were then given to round...
Submission. All week long the British authorities in Cairo conferred with Premier Ziwar over the British demands as contained in the ultimatum delivered by Lord Allenby. In the end the Egyptian Premier agreed to accept all the British demands. Whereupon the British evacuated the Alexandria Customs House which they had seized when Premier Zaghlul refused to accept in toto the British ultimatum. Lord Allenby, British High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, reported the situation "in good order," conditions "easier and satisfactory...