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...dead and the Barlman did not share the liking of the late King Fuad for the other two, promptly voted to appoint three entirely different Regents. These grave dignitaries have performed their stewardship well. Last week in the Barlman the powers they have exercised were turned over to Farouk I in a simple ceremony of oath-taking like that by which a President is sworn in at Washington. Swore His Majesty upon the sacred Koran last week, with alert U. S. Minister to Egypt Bert Fish listening in the diplomatic box: "I promise before Allah the Almighty to observe...
...simply could not be found. With neither sword nor crown exactly available, His Majesty's Government ordered that anyhow the State procession should be featured by bright red limousines, changed this finally to one bright red limousine for Premier Nahas and a shiny gold coach for King Farouk...
...Farouk had arrived from a European holiday with Fawziya, Faiza, Faika and Fathiya, his sisters, and his mother Queen Nazli "a handsomer Queen than Cleopatra." His father Fuad considered that "names commencing with 'F' are exceedingly propitious," and today Egyptians consider Farouk just about tops in a name beginning with F since it means in translation "One Who Carefully Distinguishes Between Right & Wrong." In any Eastern country the populace always frantically cheer their Lord and Master,* and both Alexandria and Cairo went deliriously wild last week over Farouk I. In Egypt some $50,000 will buy enough triumphal...
Oath at 104°. Up to last week King Farouk's nearest approach to military rank was as Egypt's Chief Boy Scout. In this capacity he recently keynoted: "Young men and young women of Egypt. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, it is our task to bring our bodies into subjugation to our wills!" Straight from Boy Scouthood last week His Majesty was promoted to Field Marshal. He donned a uniform of red, white and green, grasped the baton of Field Marshal in lieu of a sceptre, and whirled off in his coach, flanked by barefoot native runners...
Next day, although the heat of Cairo continued almost unbearable, King Farouk drove through the poorest quarters of his capital, again wildly cheered, to pray at the Mosque in which his father lies buried. On the third sizzling day His Majesty's Government set the program forward several hours, so that Field Marshal King Farouk reviewed the Egyptian Army in the cooler hours just after dawn. Every Egyptian town of importance had been equipped by the Government in recent weeks with a radio loudspeaker in the public square and the whole kingdom could listen for the first time...