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This week, troubled Egypt got its fifth Premier in five months. Out went Ahmed Naguib Hilaly Pasha and in came Hussein Sirry Pasha, a Paris-educated civil engineer. When he failed to form a cabinet, King Farouk asked Bahi Addine Barakat Pasha...
Soon, a distinguished six-man Umma delegation headed for Cairo. In four formal meetings and nine if tars (sundown breakfasts during the fast month of Ramadan), the two sides narrowed down the issues. Said Egypt's Premier, Hilaly Pasha: if the Sudanese want self-government, they can have it. But first they must acknowledge King Farouk's sovereignty, and only then may they hold a plebiscite. Said the Umma leaders: if the Sudanese want to recognize Farouk's sovereignty, well & good, but first let the Sudanese decide that by a plebiscite. Neither side went...
Abul Huda Pasha paused, went on. King Talal had finally yielded to Abul Huda's pleading and agreed to go back to Switzerland for more treatment, with his family and a small entourage. Instead, he went to Paris, where he saw the sights and refused medical treatment. He threatened the royal physician with a stick. He even turned on his son, Crown Prince Hussein, and chased him out of the room. He beat Queen Zaine, who fled to Switzerland. He struck the wife of Jordan's Minister to France. He was drinking and throwing away money on women...
Three Gifts. Abul Huda Pasha had left out, because the deputies well knew, the pressures that aggravated Talal's illness and would tend to frustrate any King of Jordan. The young kingdom set up by the British in 1920 contains 37,000 desert miles, only a fifth of which is habitable. Jordan depends almost entirely on a British subsidy of ?7,500,000 annually to run its government, and its British-trained Arab Legion...
Talal, who wanted to rule like a real King, never had a chance: he lacked his father's guile and dynamism. When he ordered the Arab Legion to retaliate against punitive Israeli attacks, he found that he could not even command his army. John Glubb Pasha, the British commander, countermanded his order. Talal's brother, Prince Naif, is living in neighboring Beirut, and plotting with dissident Jordanians to take the throne. Iraq, ruled by the Hashemite family to which Talal belongs, also has designs on his kingdom...