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Apocryphal or not, Egyptians say this story explains why Farouk has no love for the British, why last week pro-British Prime Minister Sirry Pasha was ousted and the Government turned over to Farouk's old enemy. Nahas Pasha, and his rabidly nationalistic WAFD Party. Officially the crisis was caused by El-Azhar University student riots (and Farouk's anger at not being informed) when diplomatic relations were broken with Vichy. But the basic causes for the changes in the Government were more deeply rooted...
...there is a proverb in the Near East which says: "A dog does not bite another dog from the same neighborhood." Farouk has shouted "Egypt for the Egyptians" as loudly as any of Nahas Pasha's fellahin. And while the fellahin have been influenced by Axis propaganda describing pro-British Egyptians as "Pasha Pigface" and "Pasha Fathead," Farouk has heeded Italian advisers and Axis promises of a "new order" of freedom...
These things Sumner Welles knows thoroughly, for he learned Argentine problems as first secretary in Buenos Aires during the last two years of World War I. Although Argentina remained neutral throughout World War I her neutrality was benevolently pro-U.S. and pro-British. For that, much of the credit goes to Sumner Welles. In Rio, Mr. Welles's diplomacy will be reinforced by the web of cooperation and compromise which Brazil's Oswaldo Aranha wove in a recent good-will trip to Argentina, Uruguay and Chile...
...state of siege raised suspicion among the Acting President's Radical (liberal) opposition that Ramon Castillo was using the war to entrench his Conservative clique more firmly in power. This suspicion was strengthened by Castillo's cancellation of a great pro-Ally mass meeting scheduled to be held in Luna Park. Sponsors, the pro-British Accion Argentina and Buenos Aires' most respected citizens, had expected that 50,000 people would turn out to cheer as U.S. Ambassador Norman Armour read a message from President Roosevelt...
...Government of Conservative President Ramón S. Castillo impartially banned meetings of the pro-British Acción Argentina, the left-wing Forja and nationalist groups. Police fueled planes to rush reinforcements wherever needed...