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Thus the bloody trail seemed to lead, at least indirectly, to Egypt, and a brown three-story villa off Avenue Fuad in Cairo's exclusive Heliopolis suburb. There, in exile, guarded by the Egyptian police of his friend King Farouk, plus ten Palestinian toughs, sits the Mufti, the Middle East's greatest malcontent and plotter. The Mufti hated Abdullah because he had counted on Abdullah's arms to whip the Jews, whereupon the Mufti would take over all Palestine. Instead, Abdullah made peace with the Jews and personally annexed parts of Palestine to his tiny kingdom...
...Remo, Italy, members of the honeymoon party bubbled with the news that 17-year-old Queen Narriman, who married Egypt's Playboy King Farouk last May, is expecting a child...
...that moon never rose. Ibn Saud, his family's old enemy, did not like the scheme, and neither did Egypt's Farouk, who dreamed, with his politicians, of uniting the Arab world under Egypt's leadership. Abdullah came to be almost universally disliked by other Arab leaders, denounced for his pro-Western stand...
EGYPT (pop. 20,045,000): in World War I a British protectorate; fully independent since 1936. Head of state: KING FAROUK, 31. Premier: MUSTAFA EL NAHAS PASHA, 74. Strongest party: the Wafd (conservative nationalist). Army: 80,000 British-equipped, but poorly officered. A loud voice in the Arab League...
While Middle-East tensions were erupting in a blast of gunfire (see FOREIGN NEWS), honeymooning King Farouk of Egypt dealt firmly with a tense situation of his own. In Lugano, Switzerland, a photographer snapped his picture. When the pudgy monarch protested, local policemen seized the film. Higher-ranking police, who later ordered the film returned, explained: "Switzerland is a free country." Said Farouk: "I will never return to Switzerland again." Then he and his entourage of 50 flounced off to Italy...