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...dead King's boots were tied heels to the front in the stirrups of his pure white Arabian horse and the procession began to move, paced by the dull boom of a single cannon, fired every minute. Glubb Pasha, British chief of the Arab Legion, wept openly, wiped his eyes with his red-and-white checkered legionnaire's headdress...
...draped coffin through Istanbul's streets to the Monument of Eternal Liberty. Turks by the thousands marched in the long cortege that followed, and lined the streets with heads bowed in reverence. All of Turkey paused for a moment last week as the long-dead bones of Midhat Pasha were brought home from exile for proper burial in his native land. Said a spectator: "This is a day not for sorrowing, but for rejoicing...
...months later, the Sultan met Franklin D. Roosevelt, was deeply impressed. By January 1944, an independence party, underground since the 1930s, emerged as theIstiqlal (Arabic for independence), broke out with a manifesto which quoted the Atlantic Charter. Independence seemed a splendid idea, even to old Hadj El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, leader of some 4,000,000 Berber tribesmen.* Sometimes called the French Sultan, El Glaoui had acquired wealth and power as a result of past loyalty to the French...
Egyptian suffragettes led by Doria Chafik, president of the Bent el-Nil Feminist Union, marched on Cairo's parliament house last week demanding votes for Egyptian women. Gaining the office of Senate President Aly Zaki el-Orabi Pasha, Madame Chafik found it empty, picked up the telephone, called Orabi Pasha, who was ill at his home. Said she: "I am speaking from your own office. A thousand women are outside demanding their political rights...
Prime Minister Mustapha Nahas Pasha's engagement announcement was even more heavily embossed. Over the radio, he said...