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...Speech from theThrone,"confided Egypt's Premier Hassan Sabry Pasha to his friends one day last week, "will be the shortest ever made by an Egyptian Premier...
CAIRO--Hussein Sirry Pasha, former Minister of Commerce and Public Works and a well-known civil engineer, formed a new government tonight with himself as Prime Minister. Sirry, nonpartisan, will continue Eygpt's policy of loyal help to Britain...
Youthful, chubby King Farouk of Egypt nervously gulped down his daily five-pound box of bonbons while his Premier Hassan Sabry Pasha upped the next meeting of Parliament from Nov. 7 to Oct. 5 to discuss diplomatic pussyfooting with Italy. Members of the traditionally anti-British Wafd Party actually became eager for a formal declaration of war against Italy. But there were "appeasement" groups in Egypt and certainly a fifth column. There were, in fact, so many Italian nationals (60,000) that the British announced they would have to be deported to India in batches of 250. As the week...
...present holdings in eastern Africa. Britain got sole sway over Egypt (which both Rome and Napoleon held in their day) in 1882 when France and Italy declined to share the expense of pacifying the country after it revolted against the extravagant grandson, Ismail, of able old Mehemet AH Pasha, who whipped the Turks. Toward these well-guarded objectives Mussolini reconnoitred but moved scarcely at all last week. He did launch an armored column to take Djibouti, French terminal of the railroad from the Red Sea to Addis Ababa, and bombed Aden, British control port opposite Djibouti. His object apparently...
...Maher Pasha moved with no such heavy steps. Adjoining Egypt is rich Italian Libya, with 120,000 troops. Last week, after Benito Mussolini proclaimed Italian neutrality, these troops stepped back from the Egyptian frontiers. Promptly the Egyptian Cabinet met, took the first step toward declaring war on Germany by breaking off diplomatic relations. If Benito Mussolini was playing Adolf Hitler's game by waiting, Ali Maher Pasha wanted to find it out. If Italy took no stand in this attack on her Axis partner, her intentions would be that much clearer. Ali Maher Pasha settled back to war with...