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Western Europe might lie almost defenseless under the shadow of Red guns, but some members of European society, at least, were carrying on bravely. Egypt's King Farouk, for one, moved serenely northward through France's peaceful summer landscape. Traveling incognito as Fuad Pasha Masri (Fuad-the-Egyptian) in a glittering train of seven Cadillacs with motorcycle outriders, while his private plane hopped along beside him from one airfield to the next, he startled hotel managers by arriving unannounced in the middle of the night and demanding 22 rooms for himself and staff. (At Lyons he complained that...
From her $61-a-day suite in San Francisco's plush-and-gilt Fairmont Hotel, Egypt's Queen Mother Nazli, newly dispossessed by son King Farouk because she approved her daughter's marriage to a non-Moslem, thought it over, announced: "Maybe I should...
...added: "All those who are in favor, please raise your right hand." When the hands went up they showed seven votes (Britain, China, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Norway, U.S.) for; Yugoslavia against; India and Egypt not voting. (Later, India voted for. The government of Egypt's fat, foolish King Farouk instructed Fawzi Bey to vote against...
Three Little Pigs. But censorship is by no means confined to the Soviet world. In Egypt, King Farouk, incensed by an article about his philandering, recently banned LIFE from his kingdom "forever." In the Western Hemisphere itself, despite U.S. attempts to spread the gospel of press freedom to Latin America, government interference with the internal press and outgoing cables is still common practice in some countries...
...Francisco, Moslem Princess Fathia of Egypt, 19, displeased her brother, Egypt's King Farouk, by marrying Riad Ghali, an Egyptian commoner and a Coptic Christian. Queen Mother Nazli, who has been employing the bridegroom as a political adviser, said that she approved of the marriage...