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Egyptian Fraud. As everyone knows, Great Britain must control the Suez Canal, vital "backbone" of Empire trade. Therefore she must control Egypt. She does so through Puppet-King Fuad. In the past two years His Majesty has cut himself off, step by step, from the Egyptian people and their elected representatives. When the anti-British and popular Wafd party won the last election by a majority of 19 to 1 over all opponents combined (TIME, Jan. 13, 1930), it became clear that if King Fuad was to remain on his throne and remain a British puppet the next election would...
...Booth of the British dirigible R-100 among its 25 passengers.* Arriving over Cairo a half-day ahead of schedule the Graf commander learned by radio that mooring preparations were not complete. He circled the city, dipped the airship's nose three times in salute to King Fuad and his Queen who watched from a terrace of the palace, and disappeared toward Asia Minor to kill time. On its return next morning a member of the Graf's crew dropped by parachute to Almaza Airdrome to give final instructions to the ground crew of 350 British soldiers. These...
Like Kings George of Britain and Fuad of Egypt, King Carol is a philatelist, has a collection of 11,000 stamps. Stamp dealers in Paris last week reported a large order of rarities for the royal album, hinted that the new and gorgeous Carol postage stamps ordered for the October coronation would be put on sale in Rumanian postoffices anyway, coronation or no coronation...
...Henry Herbermann, president of American Export Lines, came a pair of Royal Arabs, Leila II and Ibn Nava, mare & stallion from the stables of Ahmed Fuad, King of Egypt, Nubia, the Sudan, Cordova, Darfur...
Deputies of the Egyptian Parliament met last week at the Saadi Club in Cairo because King Fuad has dissolved their parliament (TIME, July 7). Hotly they debated His Majesty's "illegal dictatorship," excoriated and flayed him, voted "no confidence" in Prime Minister Sidky Pasha. He, "The Tiger," ignored their menaces, continued to rule under royal decree. The deputies, through their party organizations, thereupon ordered a "nonviolent campaign of passive resistance" but this did not get under way last week...