Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crime. Across the main street leading up to the Kas Durelain in Cairo, Egypt's capital, a street car passed. An automobile flying a small Union Jack drew up: it was the car of Major General Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack, Governor General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Sirdar (British Commander-in-Chief) of the Egyptian Army...
...next minute, seven Egyptian students wearing effendi dress drew their revolvers and riddled the car with bullets. Sir Lee Stack fell to the bottom of the automobile mortally wounded; he had been hit in the stomach, hand, foot. Captain P. K. Campbell, aide-de-camp, was slightly wounded in the chest; and the chauffeur, an Englishman...
...London. An ominous silence prevailed in London. Closeted in No. 10 Downing Street, Premier Baldwin and his Cabinet conferred behind closed doors. On the street, bedraggled urchins sold newspapers to the tune of "extra." An editorial writer of the London Times wrote: " The Egyptian Government must be taught that the practice of pandering to extremist influence for the sake of political advantage, which they have hitherto pursued, can no longer be tolerated. This is no case for a leisurely exchange of diplomatic notes and replies. It is a case for immediate and for energetic action. Apologies and honorary satisfaction will...
Great Britain has refused to submit her Egyptian troubles to the League of Nations. Indeed, the abruptness and vigor of the reprisals in Egypt made it extremely doubtful whether the Baldwin ministry ever gave a thought to the possibilities of a League settlement. Paradoxical as this attitude may seem upon the part of a nation that has long upheld the League, it is not entirely indefensible. The United States, with its Philippines, can readily appreciate the strength of the British assertion that the whole affair is purely a domestic one. Yet the quasi-independent status of Egypt might, without insult...
...request for independence, said he, "had been refused without proof or justification." He exhorted the Egyptians to remain faithful to "complete independence for Egypt and the Sudan." "We will never admit," he concluded, "nor will those who come after us, that a single foreign soldier shall remain on Egyptian soil...