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...Cairo Mixed Court handed down an extraordinary decision last week ordering Saad Zaghlul Pasha, leader of the potent Wafd (Nationalist party), to pay $55,000 to Mrs. Joseph Wingate Folk, widow of the late Governor of Missouri...
...Folk originally sued for $602,924. Her attorneys produced documentary evidence that an agent for Zaghlul Pasha contracted with Lawyer Folk in 1919 to further the cause of Egyptian independence by propaganda in the U. S. at a salary of $5,000 a month. In addition he was to receive approximately half a million dollars upon the successful conclusion of his work. All this was to be paid "by the Egyptian people...
...received only $5,000 up to the time of his death (1923). The Zaghlulist Wafd subsequently repudiated the entire debt on the ground that Zaghlul's agent was not empowered to make any such arrangement with Mr. Folk. Per contra, the Folk attorneys contended that Zaghlul Pasha and his agent, Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha, did authoritatively represent "the Egyptian nation" in 1919. Zaghlul, famed as "the first native Egyptian Premier (1924) since Cleopatra's day," was, in 1919, President of the Egyptian delegation to the Peace Conference. Both before and after that year he rallied Egyptians about him with...
...added by Mr. Rockefeller. His last letter to King Fuad of Egypt explained that the gift was withdrawn "to relieve the Egyptian Government of embarrassment." Still fumbling about for reasons for Egypt's reluctance other than the seemingly true one? Egypt's political misgivings and entanglements?Premier Ziwar Pasha was reported to have offered the ingenious statement: " . . . . unfortunately, before action could be taken, we were informed that Mr. Rockefeller had withdrawn...
...DANCER'S CAT?C. A. Nicholson?Bobbs-Merrill ($2). An ostentatiously esoteric tale, the core of which may or may not be the weird relationship between a young Russian dancer, Lydie Manuiloff, and her Siamese cat, Pasha. Besides this problem in comparative psychiatry, there is a remarkably fine exposition of British and Russian reticences in conflict. Lydie and her English friends are all truth-tellers, but all carry the suppressions of their cultures. Lydie understands, is tolerant of their kind of truth. Her kind hurts them. In addition she is suspected of poisoning her fiance with fish that was actually...