Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Independent Kingdom of Egypt was proclaimed in 1922, supplanting the British Protectorate established when Egypt was snatched from Turkey by the Allies in 1914. Last week fat King Fuad, a placid puppet of Great Britain, signed two decrees. One suspended the Egyptian Chamber of Deputies and Senate for "three years, or longer if circumstances shall so require." The second decree suspended ''indefinitely" Article XV of the Egyptian Constitution wherein is guaranteed free speech and freedom of the press...
...appeal to the Opposition by puppet-President Ignatz Moscicki was ignored. A story gained credence that the sick Lion of Poland had fallen victim to delusions of persecution, had shot his own gardener, was raving, confined in a straitjacket...
...interested in teaching, the college needs, for the time will come we shall find that, by avoiding the responsibility of the actual task of imparting learning in order to devote more time to meticulously unravelling the unnecessary, the professors will have brought this education to the level of a puppet show. The college needs men who realize that teaching is a task requiring coordination of body, mind, and soul in actual labor,--a task, demanding inspiring personality, for which reading systems and so called self educational methods are poor substitutes. If the college stands primarily for education, let the college...
...toward the Egyptian ports of Alexandria and Port Said. Beside the ponderous battleships, paced three swift cruisers, keen Empire dogs of war. Smoke belched. Spume flew. Meanwhile a good old fashioned ultimatum was being cabled by the potent Government of His Britannic Majesty to the puny Egyptian Cabinet of puppet King Fuad...
...Prime Ministry. Such a call would have come as a matter of course but for British dominance in Egypt. It finally came, last week, only after the British High Commissioner to Egypt, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, had convinced himself that force would be needed to impose another puppet Prime Minister upon Egypt and that for the moment force is inopportune...