Word: farouk
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...blood continued to flow in the Suez area, a sign of dissatisfaction with the course of Egypt's controversy with Britain was King Farouk...
...cover personalities. Those of which he is proudest are India's Nehru, Generals MacArthur, Eisenhower and Ridgway, Man of the Year Mossadegh, France's late General de Lattre and Warren Austin. Among those who turned him down were Churchill, Truman, Egypt's King Farouk, Argentina's Peróns and Vasily Stalin...
...Rome, the Soviet standard atop the Russian embassy on Janiculum Hill beat all other official flags, including even the British, to half-staff. In Cairo, where charred and blackened ruins stand in silent testimony to Egypt's hatred of all things British, King Farouk declared a 14-day period of public mourning for the dead sovereign. In India, whose republican government no longer recognizes the Crown, bazaars were closed and a national eleven-day period of mourning was proclaimed. In Dublin, a little Irish lady stood crying on a street corner as she read of the British King...
...also made receptive gestures toward the British. Ambassador Sir Ralph Stevenson was received in audience by King Farouk for the first time since Egypt abrogated its treaty with Britain in October. Maher Pasha announced: "We are ready to consider any understanding Mr. Eden might propose...
Toward a Solution. The crisis was by no means over. Egyptians, from King Farouk on down, still wanted the British to get out; no Premier could yield on this and survive. But the old drift and truculence were gone. London also pulled back. Anthony Eden soothingly told the House of Commons he thought it possible to find a solution that would satisfy Egypt's "legitimate national aspirations" without jeopardizing "the security of the free world." That solution rested on selling Egypt on a Middle East command, in which Egypt, Britain, the U.S., France and Turkey would jointly replace...