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...around the Suez Canal; it also repeated Britain's frequent promise to get out eventually. The treaty ended half a century of British rule, which began with Queen Victoria's forces moving in to protect British citizens and British investments. In the 18603 and 18703, Egyptian Khedive Ismail, a gusty, grandiose ruler who had a harem of 3,000 women, had dreamed vast dreams which he executed with the help of usurious European bankers. They supplied the cash at interest rates ranging up to 40%. He built 9,000 miles of canals, 4,500 schools, and completed...
...Died. Ismail Sidky Pasha, 75, twice Premier of Egypt; in Paris. Though he lacked the popular touch, rich, hardboiled Sidky Pasha, an able administrator, was in the thick of Egyptian politics for half a century...
...Shah's exwife, beautiful Princess Fawzia, whom he divorced last fall because she had borne him no sons, last week remarried in Cairo. Her new spouse: Ismail Shirene Bey, a minor official in the Egyptian premier's office. Both Fawzia (sister of Egypt's King Farouk) and her new husband are descended from Mohammed AH Pasha (1769-1849), the Albanian adventurer who founded the present Egyptian dynasty...
...Ismail Sidky Pasha, back from London discussions (sometimes limited by Sidky's bladder trouble), embarrassed Britain by letting his spokesman claim that Bevin had promised Egypt sovereignty over Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. A quick denial came from the British, who had no intention of surrendering military or administrative control of this northernmost link in the prospective Nigeria-Kenya chain...
Next day, Egypt's new premier, grizzled old Ismail Sidky Pasha, pleaded with his people to keep their fezzes on. Sidky's regime sympathized with nationalist goals-evacuation of British troops in Egypt, an end to British joint control over the Sudan. But cautious Sidky knew that negotiations to revise the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty might consume weeks; it might take only minutes to touch off another riot...