Word: farouk
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...years time," King Farouk once remarked, "there will be only five kings in the world-the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards...
...Cairo last week an ambitious Egyptian general seized the royal palace and gave His Majesty King Farouk exactly six hours to abdicate his throne and clear out of Egypt for good. A thousand miles away, in poverty-stricken Iran, Communists and Nationalist mobs forced the Shah of Shahs to cringe in his lovely palace and give over to Mohammed Mossadegh absolute power over the Iranian army. "Mossy," as he is known in the English-speaking press, got his old job back as Premier (see below...
...Farouk and the Shah, both 32-year-olds, had failed on both counts. Both intervened to save their countries from nationalist fanatics, whose extremism threatened civil war. But Farouk's interventions, though courageous, were fitful; the Shah's too timid. Farouk, famed for yachts, gambling and women, lost his popular support to the corrupt Wafd Party; he antagonized his army by failing to clean out the extortionists in his own palace...
...Court Jester. Over the clack of the car wheels, Hassouna Pasha continued his story. The intermediary was Kareem Tabet Pasha, a sort of amateur Rasputin who has been floating around Cairo for years. Tabet Pasha, King Farouk's press counselor until 1951, actually functioned more as court jester, five-percenter, and fellow nightclubber. Investigations into the Palestine arms scandal -in which defective arms were purchased and supplied to Egyptian troops fighting the Israelis-had repeatedly turned up his name. About nine months ago, Farouk dismissed Tabet, who scurried off to Switzerland. He had returned recently to Egypt...
...Hopeless Fight. Sixty years old and weary, Hilaly reconsidered his position after four months in office. His attempt to clean up Egyptian politics seemed almost hopeless. The courts were jammed with tax-evasion cases. The battle to win sovereignty of the Sudan for King Farouk had made little headway, despite endless talks with the British. On top of all of this, it now seemed to Hilaly that his monarch, on whom he had counted, was weakening...