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Egypt's palace dictatorship died last fortnight with King Fuad I (TIME, May 11). Last week Egyptian politicians worked fast to take over the Government. As 16-year-old King Farouk I arrived from England to move into his new job, Egypt's overwhelmingly popular Wafd Party swept snap elections, as speechless as they were brief, for the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Reason for haste was that King Farouk is two years short of his dynastic majority. The Constitution of 1923 provided that the envelope containing King Fuad's nominations for the Council of Regents...
Promptly on the tenth day after Fuad's death, Egypt's first Parliament since November 1934 met on the Moslem Sunday (Friday) for the first time in history. After brief eulogies to the King, Premier Aly Maher Pasha opened the envelope. Everybody knew the three names it contained: Fuad's son-in-law Mahmond Fakry Pasha; onetime Premier Tewfik Nessim Pasha; and the late Premier Adly Yeghen Pasha, all good safe Fuad stooges...
Hence last week there was neither a Chamber of Deputies nor a Senate to wit ness the envelope's opening. A Chamber election was run off with comparative decorum (two killed, 50 wounded) four days after King Fuad died. Result was an overwhelming victory for the Wafd which clinched 118 seats at once, expected when all votes are counted to hold nearly 200 of the Chamber's 235 seats...
Instead the Premier agreed with the Wafd leader to call a Senate election this week. Senate and Chamber to assemble on the tenth day after Fuad's death to watch the opening of the envelope...
...names they will then hear read off will be Mahmoud Fakry Pasha, Mohammed Tewfik Nessim Pasha and Adly Yeghen Pasha. The last is dead. One of King Fuad's last acts was to nominate as substitute his nephew, Prince Mohammed Ali, to head the Council of Regents...