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Your reference to the Egyptian Parliament being "a steaming little sweatbox" during the recent investiture of King Farouk (TIME, p. 18, Aug. 9) would have been expected, except that again American engineering and manufacturing has brought cool comfort and the other benefits of true air conditioning to a tropical potentate...
Similarly, although new King Farouk is "Sovereign of the Sudan," the Sudan is actually ruled by a Governor General who remains British and commands British troops under the treaty which is for 20 years, automatically extended then for another 20 years...
...these circumstances a King of Egypt, if he expects to keep his throne, must be educated and reared just about as was Farouk I, recently hailed by the British press when he visited London as "The Most Perfectly Brought Up Boy In The World." Aged four he received a pretty Yorkshire widow, Mrs. Ina Xaylor. as his nurse-governess. She remained his governess until he was 15 and the Egyptian Parliament voted $80,000 to defray the expenses of himself and suite during the Crown Prince's first year of education in England. With Egyptian guards bristling all over...
...definitely strong Egyptian character, obliged though King Fuad was often to behave as an acceptable British puppet. Behind the scenes and at moments when British pressure was relaxed. Fuad I was always wangling this or that concession for Egypt from her masters, set an example which 18-year-old Farouk I will have to show the character and tenacity of a Yorkshire governess to equal...
Fuad I came to the throne poor, yet left a private fortune of $50,000,000 to Farouk I, thus making the new King probably the wealthiest Egyptian. His Late Majesty accomplished this by confiscating the estates of the mad Prince Ahmed Seif Eddin. That he was mad or at least mad at King Fuad, the Prince proved decisively by firing a bullet which lodged in His Majesty's throat. This made Fuad I often cough and gurgle horribly, and His Majesty carried the bullet to his tomb...