Word: farouk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Libya in case Italy and the United Kingdom find themselves at war, so her Minister of War and Marine Hassan Sabry Pasha was in London, busily consulting with the British War Office. Meanwhile, Egypt's defenses along the frontier of Italian Libya were inspected by popular young King Farouk I on a flying visit to pep up Egyptian troops...
Engaged. Princess Fawziya, 16, eldest sister of King Farouk of Egypt; and Shahpoor Mohammed Reza, 18, Crown Prince of Iran...
...Farouk's hand-picked Premier, Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha, read the ten-minute Speech from the Throne, Farouk gazed on a Chamber far more amenable to his will than the one he inherited on his Coronation. Although above party politics according to the Constitution, the ambitious boy-King has booted out the Premier of the majority Wafdist (nationalist) Party, Mustafa Nahas Pasha, and dissolved the Parliament. The Wafd, torn by internal dissension, split into two groups, a Nahas Pasha bloc and the insurgents who call themselves Saadists or "true Wafdists...
Three weeks ago Farouk held elections for a new Parliament. Undoubtedly popular with the people, Farouk nevertheless faced the fact that the fellaheen, most of whom are illiterate, had for years voted for the Wafdists, who passed out the bribes, controlled the police and election officials. In this election Farouk controlled the police and officials. Smartly, he held elections in Upper & Lower Egypt on two different days so his police and troops could concentrate in one section at a time. Nahas Pasha followers were clamped in jail, their identity cards taken up to prevent their voting. A dozen persons were...
...King, long suspected of Italian leanings-even his coachmen are Neapolitans-last week gave the first public indication that, like his father, King Fuad, he is ready to play ball with the British. Fear of Mussolini has of late become real in Egypt and the main declaration of Farouk's message was to place Egypt squarely behind Prime Minister Chamberlain and the British-Italian pact signed last week in Rome (see p. 16). Egyptian delegates attended the Rome conferences. "The Anglo-Italian agreement," declared Farouk, "is the surest guarantee of peace...