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...thereby the Middle East -under Egyptian leadership. As the Arab League delegates assembled in Cairo last week they were eager for a glimpse of the new strongman. He promptly snowed his hand, told Azzam to resign or be fired. Smiling, tarbooshed Azzam resigned. His successor: British-educated Abdel Khalek Hassouna, 53, onetime Egyptian Foreign Minister...
June 20, on a train speeding from Alexandria to Cairo, Foreign Minister Abdel-Khalek Hassouna Pasha entered Premier Hilaly's compartment with disquieting news: an important ex-government official and crony of King Farouk, acting for the powerful Wafd Party, had called on U.S. Ambassador Caffery and offered to make a deal. Its substance: the Wafd would reverse itself completely and support the State Department's pet project, the Middle East Command. In return, the U.S. embassy had to use its influence with King Farouk to get Hilaly fired and the Wafd returned to office. Reason...
...radical a shift in Egyptian politics came, and could come, only after a prolonged and bitter crisis (TIME, March 12 et seq). The previous Prime Minister, Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha?like King Fuad a British puppet?was forced to resign when he attempted to foist upon Egypt a British-dictated treaty of "alliance" which was actually one of "subjugation...
Prime Minister Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha attained the focus of interest when he recently submitted to party leaders the draft treaty which he negotiated in London, during King Fuad's visit there (TIME, July...