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...Italian. It was clear that months of pan-Islamic and pro-Fascist propaganda and intrigue in the Near East by agents of Benito Mussolini had sown in Cairo much of what the King was trying to reap this week. The British were not in the least relieved when Ali Maher Pasha, Chief Political Chamberlain of His Majesty, also told London papers by telephone that "there is not a word of truth" in the rumors that Egypt's new Cabinet is pro-Mussolini...
...proroguing Parliament for a month were sent to be read in each house. The Senate quietly voted nonconfidence in the new Cabinet 83-10-4 but accepted the decree. In the Chamber, just as His Majesty's decree was about to be read by the Speaker, Dr. Ahmad Maher, irate ex-Premier El Nahas leaped up and tried to make a speech which began "In the name of the Fatherland. . . ." Tumult erupted, the police were called and the lights of the Chamber were extinguished, but the deputies, milling about in semidarkness, managed to keep the prorogation order from being...
Fortnight ago King and Cabinet clashed again as Premier Nahas' majority Wafdists picked a successor for Ali Maher's vacated Senate seat. Farouk refused to confirm the Cabinet's selection and the thwarted Premier again backed down, agreed to nominate a candidate neutral in the controversy. Last week the bickering came to a head with both King and Cabinet in a bellicose mood. The Cabinet sent Farouk a flat demand that he sign a bill recently passed by Parliament allowing the Premier to distribute, without accounting for, some $195,000 in secret funds for suppression of foreign...
Such funds are appropriated by most European governments, but Farouk was suspicious that the money was intended for the coffers of Premier Nahas' Wafdist & Blueshirt organizations. Again Farouk balked. Adviser Maher acted for him, accepted a compromise sum of $70,000. Then the King tried his hand with an ultimatum. Anxious to get rid of the armed Blueshirts. Farouk gave his Cabinet an overnight choice: dissolve the organization or hand in their resignations as Ministers. At the last minute, Premier Nahas came forward with a compromise...
...would transform the quasi-military Blueshirts into a sports and cultural group. The young King, counseled by Adviser Ali Maher, held out for unconditional dissolution and partisans of Farouk took to the streets to fight it out with adherents of Premier Nahas and the Wafdists. At week's end both combatants were stubbornly holding out on a decision as 11,000 pro-Farouk students at El-Azhar university, chief Moslem theological school, went on a mass sit-down strike to back up the young monarch...