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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Specific problems of war prevention and peace promotion will be discussed at the evening meeting. Among those scheduled to speak are Dr. Kirby Page, author and publicist: and the Rt. Hon. George Lausbury, British Labor member of Parliament. Who addressed the Harvard Student Union last night in Lowell House...
...Foreign Affairs Committee of the Governing Parties in the House of Commons is an unofficial organization, composed of Members of Parliament, which meets from time to time in secret sessions. Its purpose is to offer the Cabinet, whose members are barred from its meetings, unofficial advice on British foreign policy. It is generally led by men who have served in other Cabinets who enjoy talking off the record. Last week this strange political organism assembled privately in a House of Commons committee room to discuss the aftermath of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia. Even the Parliamentary innocents who revolted...
...brief, for the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Reason for haste was that King Farouk is two years short of his dynastic majority. The Constitution of 1923 provided that the envelope containing King Fuad's nominations for the Council of Regents had to be opened before a full Parliament within ten days of his death...
Promptly on the tenth day after Fuad's death, Egypt's first Parliament since November 1934 met on the Moslem Sunday (Friday) for the first time in history. After brief eulogies to the King, Premier Aly Maher Pasha opened the envelope. Everybody knew the three names it contained: Fuad's son-in-law Mahmond Fakry Pasha; onetime Premier Tewfik Nessim Pasha; and the late Premier Adly Yeghen Pasha, all good safe Fuad stooges...
...Wafd Parliament had the right to reject these names and it unanimously did so. It thereupon chose Prince Mohammed Ali for president of the Regency Council, as Fuad had planned, and two other men who would probably have been acceptable to the late King. They were his brother-in-law, Cherif Sabry Pasha, 41, athletic Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, and onetime Foreign Minister and Minister to Great Britain General Aziz Izzet Pasha. Not by accident was the Council loaded with foreign affairs experts, for Egypt's most important pending business is the negotiation of a new treaty with Britain...