Word: farouk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest factor in Mediterranean affairs is Italy's future policy. Nobody knows it better than astute Ali Maher Pasha (long an adviser of King Farouk), who became Egypt's Premier three weeks ago. Many an anxious Briton had urged that, if Italy is to be neutral, she be forced to give some token to insure neutrality...
Other power politicking of the week: > Air Marshal Italo Balbo, not to be outdone by Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, interrupted his direction of Libya's war preparations last week to pay a visit to neighboring Egypt. In interviews with the press and King Farouk the bearded Marshal professed friendly sentiments for Egypt, but just to be on the safe side Cairo planned a mock air-raid and black-out after he had gone...
...mild distinction of being one of the several hundred fathers-in-law of King Solomon. Later, however, they decided that the mummy's real name was "Sheshonk," because this name was found on the ornaments in the silver coffin. In the presence of Egypt's young King Farouk,* an archeological devotee who rushed to the spot by automobile, three canopic vases (vases with covers in the shape of human or animal heads) were opened. Each of these contained a silver box shaped like the mummy and bearing the name of Sheshonk. In one corner was a tall conical...
...King Farouk does not claim to be descended from the Pharaohs. His ancestors came out of Albania...
While her papa, Egypt's King Farouk, attended the exhumation of one of his royal predecessors, Princess Ferial (age four months) faced the world in her first picture. Egypt's adoring fellaheen fondly assured one another that the picture bore a strong resemblance to their late princess, Cleopatra...