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...Egyptian government had read a shrewd lesson from the doings in Iran: defy the once mighty lion, and Britain will send, not battleships, but emissaries with offers. Last week old (74), ailing Mustafa El Nahas Pasha, a spent revolutionary and perennial Premier, began to apply the lesson: he demanded that Britain get out of Egypt and the Sudan...
Before a mass meeting in Alexandria, El Nahas Pasha cried, "The colonizers [Great Britain] must know that Egypt's patience is exhausted, and that she will attain her rights, whatever the obstacles." He chose the week of the i sth anniversary of the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936 (which still has five years to run) to denounce it. It "must be canceled and will be, in a very short time," he said, and the crowd cheered wildly. Al Midoa, weekly newspaper of Nahas Pasha's Wafdist Party, roared: "We do not believe that the Egyptian nation is less...
...treaty which permits British troops to be stationed there, and to rule the million square miles of the Sudan jointly with Egypt, was signed by El Nahas Pasha himself, and hailed by him as a step toward Egyptian independence. It gave Britain the right to keep naval facilities at Alexandria and Port Said, and to station troops around the Suez Canal; it also repeated Britain's frequent promise to get out eventually. The treaty ended half a century of British rule, which began with Queen Victoria's forces moving in to protect British citizens and British investments...
Private Dread. Now that Premier Nahas' once popular Wafdist government is troubled by financial scandal, and his people by economic distress, he turns-as Egyptian politicians always have-to twisting the lion's tail. Privately, Nahas Pasha, like King Farouk and the rest of Egypt's upper crust, probably dreads nothing so much as the withdrawal of Britain's defensive screen. Without it, Egypt would be in poorer shape to resist the Russians, its own restless mob, and the Israelis, whom many Egyptians still fear. The British are convinced, as they were in Iran, that...
EGYPT (pop. 20,045,000): in World War I a British protectorate; fully independent since 1936. Head of state: KING FAROUK, 31. Premier: MUSTAFA EL NAHAS PASHA, 74. Strongest party: the Wafd (conservative nationalist). Army: 80,000 British-equipped, but poorly officered. A loud voice in the Arab League...