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Deputies of the Egyptian Parliament met last week at the Saadi Club in Cairo because King Fuad has dissolved their parliament (TIME, July 7). Hotly they debated His Majesty's "illegal dictatorship," excoriated and flayed him, voted "no confidence" in Prime Minister Sidky Pasha. He, "The Tiger," ignored their menaces, continued to rule under royal decree. The deputies, through their party organizations, thereupon ordered a "nonviolent campaign of passive resistance" but this did not get under way last week...
...dictatorship. Of the three Great Powers of South America, Argentina and Chile have dictator-presidents, while Brazil is ruled by a coffee oligarchy. In Africa the King of Egypt and the Emperor of Abyssinia are dictators. Turkey, the only strong nation in the Near East, has her dictator Kemal Pasha. Apart from the U. S., Britain, France and Japan (which is a most democratic empire) there is no Great Power in which democracy still exists-but these four democracies are easily the first four Powers...
...unobtrusively as possible last week, young Egyptian Wafdists (Nationalists) wheeled barrows full of brickbats through the alleys of Alexandria, dumped them handily near Mehemet Ali Square and in the backyards of buildings along the famed Sheif Pasha (Alexandria's "Fifth Ave-nue"). So far as the napping authorities knew all that was going to happen was "Two Hours of Silence...
...silence" had been ordered by Wafdist Leader Nahas Pasha, whom King Fuad recently forced to resign as Prime Minister, although he commanded 95% of the seats in Egypt's Parliament. The issue was clearly that of Democracy v. Autocracy, for King Fuad, a British puppet, was attempting to rule last week with a "Palace Premier," Ismail Sidky Pasha, who is not himself a member of Parliament and controls but three Parliamentary votes...
Month ago news reached Angora (Turkish capital) that the Kurds, a warlike backward race inhabiting a region which overlaps both Turkey and Persia, had risen in rebellion against the reforms of Turkish Dictator Mustapha Kemal Pasha. They had declared a Holy War. Dictator Kemal knew what to do. He ordered 15,000 regular troops, 15,000 reserves and Turkey's entire air force to the front, commanded them to exterminate without mercy every single Kurdish rebel...