Word: ragtail
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...would recall him. He sarcastically asked his Waidist cabinet members just how they reconciled their party's anti-Communist position with their Foreign Minister's "making Communist propaganda." Moreover, said Farouk, he didn't like this business of allowing political parties to form their own ragtail "liberation battalions." He wound up by telling the Wafdists that he thought their party was shrinking in power...
Silent Parade. Interior Minister Serag el Din called in the Cairo press, read them a lecture on falsifying the news with their absurd stories of British atrocities. He announced that the ragtail "liberation battalions" would be absorbed into the regular army, where the authorities could keep an eye on them...
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