Word: fuad
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...bleak stone villa in London's suburban Kingston Hill, a tall, dazed, blue-eyed boy of 16 last week got a long-distance call from Cairo. It was his mother, Queen Nazli. "My son," she sobbed, "you are King." Egypt's fat and flabby King Fuad had just died of heart attack and gangrene of the mouth (TIME...
...tutors drilled him in English, French, Arabic, history, geography, mathematics, chemistry, physics, gymnastics, boxing, fencing and tennis. In that time his face had lengthened and hardened out of the sly sophistication of a Prince of Albanian-Egyptian blood. His father's only son, he could not get to Fuad's funeral because Moslem law requires burial of the dead within 24 hours...
Died. King Fuad I of Egypt, 68, ninth sovereign of his dynasty; after long illness complicated by stomatitis and gangrene; in Cairo. Fat, scholarly Ahmed Fuad, proclaimed King in 1922, was Great Britain's unwilling puppet, repeatedly threw his weight against the Wafdists, Egypt's overwhelming majority party. His only son, Prince Farouk, 16, succeeds to the throne under a regency...
...triumphal arches available for the restored King's entry into Athens had been bought by the Greek Republic last year when a visit was expected from Egypt's King Fuad who sent his regrets...
...years ago Britain's puppet, Premier Nessim abolished Puppet King Fuad's tyrannous Constitution of 1930 but he has failed to restore the slightly more liberal Constitution of 1923. There was only a little outward grumbling when Britain poured a vast arsenal of planes and troops into Egypt last month (TIME, Nov. 4). What happened last week was that the Egyptian Nationalists of the overwhelming majority Wafd* Party saw its chance to bargain with the British Empire for greater freedom...