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Egypt's 18-year-old King Farouk last week drove through Cairo streets, sardine-packed with cheering, cotton-robed fellaheen to open the first Parliament elected since his Coronation. Sixteen-year-old Queen Farida, who has been breaking precedents right & left since her betrothal, last week led the way in breaking another. With Queen Mother Nazli she watched the opening from the royal loge, the first time female members of the royal family have attended the traditional male function...
...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...
After delegates of 21 nations had been greeted in Cairo's Royal Opera House by 15 kind words from King Farouk, the I. O. C.'s president, Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, said he had visions of "the dawn of a period of peace which is going to succeed a long period of obstruction and difficulties of all kinds." But Count Baillet-Latour's optimistic visions turned out to be an Egyptian mirage. No sooner had the committeemen taken a peaceful look at the pyramids and toured the Nile than they sat down aboard the steamer Victoria...
Dictatorial young King Farouk opened in Cairo's resplendent Théâtre Royal de I'Opera last week the International Convention of Telecommunications. Its delegates from 62 nations agreed that the terrace of Tony Shepheard's Hotel is one of the finest places for Scotch & soda, agreed that Cairo's Nautch Girls and night spots are messy, overrated. The delegates had not yet agreed at latest dispatches upon any major issue of Telecommunications...