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...more moderate Palestine Arab Party was satisfied with British action stopping Jewish immigration. The extremist Independence Arab Party favored immediate action against the Jews. In desperation, Mardam called in Iraq's Nuri Pasha, an old hand at settling Arab disputes. At week's end, negotiations broke down again...
...demonstrations ended as indiscriminate orgies of looting, rioting, burning. Cairo's one-day toll: several dead, 230 injured (including 90 Egyptian policemen). In Alexandria another 200 were hurt. In both cities scores of foreign stores were damaged. Egypt's firm, tight-lipped Premier, Mahmoud Fahmy El Nokrashy Pasha, and its British Acting Police Commandant, Major General T. W. Fitzpatrick, were angry but optimistic...
Both were wrong. Next day Cairo's crooked streets spawned more trouble. More stores, Arab as well as foreign, were looted, and synagogues in Cairo and Alexandria were set afire. Doughty Premier Nokrashy Pasha personally seized two pillagers by the scruff of the neck, had them arrested. By the second nightfall more than 1,000 persons had been jailed in Cairo alone, many of them for looting...
...Pasha in the Desert. Morris soon sailed for home. Eaton quickly followed, to promote his own plan for the conquest of Tripoli. He proposed to place on the throne of Tripoli a pusillanimous and vacillating ex-Pasha, Hamet Karamanli, whose bloodthirsty younger brother Yusuf reigned supreme after having murdered one relative and frightened his rabbity senior away...
When Eaton returned to North Africa, he was flush with a $20,000 revolution-promotion fund. His first task was to find the rightful Pasha, who had fled in terror far up the Nile. After a two-month search he found his man. Somewhat reluctantly, Hamet signed a treaty of alliance with the U.S., made Eaton a general in his army, and agreed to march on Tripoli...