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King Fuad, Ahmed Fuad Pasha, G. C. B., is the eighth ruler of the dynasty founded by Muhammad Ali in 1811, and is the son of Khedive Ismail Pasha, whom the French and British forced to abdicate in 1879. He is 55 years of age, became Sultan of Egypt on October 9, 1917, and married Princess Nazli on May 24, 1919. He is a man of large stature; handsome after the manner of Egyptians; inordinately proud of a mature Kaiser moustache; of considerable intelligence, but with pronounced leanings to despotism, believing that his subjects should heed the Spanish proverb: "With...
...spite of almost daily political disturbances, the opera season closed with its usual brilliance. Opera in Egypt is state organized and state subsidized. The Royal Opera House was built by Khedive Ismail as part of the celebrations in connection with the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. Verdi wrote an opera for its opening-Aida, and ever since Aida has opened the Cairo season. Since the war the visiting companies have been chiefly Italian. It is from the business community that the greater part of the opera audiences are drawn. Egyptians are generally indifferent. Italians, Greeks, Syrians, but above...
...owned a large part of Suez Canal, from which she derived a revenue to pay off the national debt: Ibid.- (b) The good of civilization did not demand it.- (1) Mehemet Ali had made travel safe and made Egypt a responsible nation: Pol. Sci. Quar. as above.- (2) Ismail, the successor of Mehemet Ali, had expended more than 46,000,000 pounds sterling upon public utilities: Ibid.- (3) Foreign nations were being consulted in regard to finances and the other matters of policy: Ibid.-(4) Foreign method and ways were being introduced: McCoan, p. 278.- (x) Courts were established...
...European governments. and treaty privileges exist with fourteen powers not in harmony with each other.- (d) Sanitary condition of country worse: Am. Cyclo., 1890.- (e) Crime has increased under British rule: Ibid.- (f) Only one half is now spent per annum for education as was spent by Ismail: Pol. Sci. Quar., I, 332.- (g) England has seized upon the 176,000 shares which Egypt owned in the Suez Canal and has deprived the country of its revenue: Quar. Rev. as above.- (h) If it be said that the present condition of Egypt is more prosperous than ever, we answer that...