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Last week Cairo broke its tight censorship over Farouk's highhanded love match. At Abdin Palace, the Royal Press Counselor Karem Sabet Pasha announced...
Western Europe might lie almost defenseless under the shadow of Red guns, but some members of European society, at least, were carrying on bravely. Egypt's King Farouk, for one, moved serenely northward through France's peaceful summer landscape. Traveling incognito as Fuad Pasha Masri (Fuad-the-Egyptian) in a glittering train of seven Cadillacs with motorcycle outriders, while his private plane hopped along beside him from one airfield to the next, he startled hotel managers by arriving unannounced in the middle of the night and demanding 22 rooms for himself and staff. (At Lyons he complained that...
Died. Ismail Sidky Pasha, 75, twice Premier of Egypt; in Paris. Though he lacked the popular touch, rich, hardboiled Sidky Pasha, an able administrator, was in the thick of Egyptian politics for half a century...
Fashionable hostesses in Cairo and Alexandria always knew better than to invite Mohammed Farghaly Pasha and Aly Yehia Pasha to the same party. Bitter personal enemies, they were also business rivals and the biggest cotton exporters in Alexandria. But last February, Farghaly and Yehia evidently struck a business truce. They began buying Ashmouni (medium-staple) cotton futures (Egypt's biggest cotton crop) on the Alexandria exchange until they had invested more than $63 million in 140 million pounds of cotton...
Arab League came pained outcries. "Human patience has a limit, even an Arab's patience," glowered League Secretary General Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha. Non-Jordan Arabs were angry at Abdullah, whose designs on eastern Palestine had long been a sore point with them. They were even angrier at Britain both for its support of Jordan and its recognition of Israel. And they strongly suspected the U.S. of winking at British maneuvers in the Middle East. Outraged as most Arab League nations were, however, there was little they could do but bark indignantly in the direction of Abdullah. With British...